Dan Shaughnessy Wins Baseball Hall Of Fame's Spink Award
BOSTON (CBS) -- Longtime Boston Globe columnist and frequent 98.5 The Sports Hub guest Dan Shaughnessy is headed to the Hall of Fame.
On Tuesday, Shaughnessy was named the winner of the 2015 J.G. Taylor Spink Award, as voted on by fellow members of the Baseball Writers' Association of America.
"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," according to the Hall of Fame's website. "The award honors a baseball writer (or writers) 'for meritorious contributions to baseball writing' and is presented during Hall of Fame Weekend by that year's President of the Baseball Writers' Association of America."
Shaughnessy joins Harold Kaese (1974), Tim Murnane (1978), Peter Gammons (2004) and Larry Whiteside (2008) as the only Boston-based recipients of the award.
"It's a great honor and I have so much regard for those who have won this award in the past," Shaughnessy told Globe colleague Peter Abraham. "It's staggering to be included with those names."