"Spink Award" redirects here. For the former minor league baseball honor, see Topps Minor League Player of the Year Award.
BBWAA Career Excellence Award
J. G. Taylor Spink, the award's first recipient and former namesake
Sport
Baseball
Awarded for
"Meritorious contributions to baseball writing"
Location
National Baseball Hall of Fame Cooperstown, New York
Presented by
Baseball Writers' Association of America (BBWAA)
History
First award
1962
First winner
J. G. Taylor Spink
Most recent
Gerry Fraley (2024)
Website
Official website
The BBWAA Career Excellence Award, formerly the J. G. Taylor Spink Award, is the highest award given by the Baseball Writers' Association of America (BBWAA). It is given "for meritorious contributions to baseball writing" and voted on annually by the BBWAA.[1] Winners are typically announced in December, with the award presented during induction festivities of the Baseball Hall of Fame in July.
Winners of the award are not members of the Hall. They are not "inducted" or "enshrined." They are not "Hall of Fame sportswriters." There is no "writers' wing of the Hall of Fame." But winners are permanently recognized in an exhibit at the Hall's library.
The award was instituted in 1962 and named after J. G. Taylor Spink, publisher of The Sporting News from 1914 to 1962, and the award's first recipient. In February 2021, the BBWAA voted to remove his name from the award "due to Spink’s troubled history in supporting segregated baseball."[1][2][3]
^ ab"BBWAA Career Excellence Award". baseballhall.org. Retrieved February 28, 2021.
^"BBWAA removes J.G. Taylor Spink's name from Hall of Fame writing award over racist language". ESPN.com. February 5, 2021. Retrieved February 27, 2021.
^Lucia, Joe (February 5, 2021). "BBWAA removes JG Taylor Spink's name from annual award, renames it as "Career Excellence Award"". Awful Announcing.
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