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J.G. Taylor Spink Award Honorees

The J.G. Taylor Spink Award, named after the late editor of The Sporting News, has been voted upon annually since 1962 when Spink himself was the recipient of the inaugural honor. The award honors a baseball writer (or writers) "for meritorious contributions to baseball writing" and is presented at the Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony by that year's President of the Baseball Writers' Association of America (BBWAA).

The award is voted upon annually by the BBWAA, via a meeting and subsequent "show of hands" either at the preceding year's World Series or Winter Meetings. A nominee is recommended by the BBWAA's Screening Committee prior to the meeting. Each award recipient (not to be confused with an inductee) is presented with a certificate during the Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony and is recognized in the "Scribes & Mikemen" exhibit in the Library of the National Baseball Hall of Fame.

1962 — J.G. Taylor Spink 1963 — Ring Lardner 1964 — Hugh Fullerton 1965 — Charles Dryden 1966 — Grantland Rice 1967 — Damon Runyon 1968 — Harry G. Salsinger 1969 — Sid Mercer 1970 — Heywood C. Broun 1971 — Frank Graham 1972 — Dan Daniel, Fred Lieb, J. Roy Stockton 1973 — Warren Brown, John Drebinger,                John F. Kieran 1974 — John Carmichael, James Isaminger 1975 — Tom Meany, Shirley Povich 1976 — Harold Kaese, Red Smith 1977 — Gordon Cobbledick, Edgar Munzel 1978 — Tim Murnane, Dick Young 1979 — Bob Broeg, Tommy Holmes 1980 — Joe Reichler, Milton Richman 1981 — Allen Lewis, Bob Addie 1982 — Si Burick 1983 — Ken Smith 1984 — Joe McGuff

1985 — Earl Lawson 1986 — Jack Lang 1987 — Jim Murray 1988 — Bob Hunter, Ray Kelly 1989 — Jerome Holtzman 1990 — Phil Collier 1991 — Ritter Collett 1992 — Leonard Koppett, Bus Saidt 1993 — Wendell Smith 1994 — No Award Presented 1995 — Joseph Durso 1996 — Charley Feeney 1997 — Sam Lacy 1998 — Bob Stevens 1999 — Hal Lebovitz 2000 — Ross Newhan 2001 — Joe Falls 2002 — Hal McCoy 2003 — Murray Chass 2004 — Peter Gammons 2005 — Tracy Ringolsby 2006 — Rick Hummel 2008* — Larry Whiteside

*In 2007, the BBWAA changed the year designation for the Spink Award to coincide with that of the Hall of Fame induction ceremony.