Wednesday, December 8, 2010
WHEN HE'S KING OF THE WORLD ... The Baseball Writers Association of America has elected the Philadelphia Daily News' Bill Conlin as the 2011 J.G. Taylor Spink Award winner for lifetime contributions to baseball writing. Conlin will receive the award as part of the Hall of Fame induction ceremonies next July, same weekend that Pat Gillick will be inducted (and Marvin Miller, sadly, won't be), with Roberto Alomar, Jeff Bagwell and Bert Blyleven (at last) as the likely main ballot inductees. He is, to my knowledge, the third DN journalist of this era to be inducted into his sport's hall of fame's writer's wing, joining Ray Didinger (NFL) and the late Phil Jasner (NBA).
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And, okay, he once emailed a blogger critic the following:
ReplyDelete<span>"The only positive thing I can think of about Hitler's time on earth-I'm sure he would have eliminated all bloggers. In Colonial times, bloggers were called "Pamphleteers." They hung on street corners handing them out to passersby. Now, they hang out on electronic street corners, hoping somebody mouses on to their pretentious sites. Different medium, same MO. Shakespeare accidentally summed up the genre best with these words from a MacBeth soliloquy: ". . .a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. . ." "</span>
Damn shame about Marvin Miller; besides free agency, he was a tireless force for trying to improve the game in a multitude of ways. But, congratulations to Mr. Conlin, who despite his apparent disdain for the rest of us entering the conversation is a damn fine writer. (And now, my faint hope that Harold Baines will finally have his year continues.)
ReplyDeleteBlyleven, Barry Larkin.
ReplyDeleteWould otherwise vote in Marvin Miller and the late Ron Santo.
We can do the "my ballot would be" at a later point, but I certainly believe Larkin should be in.
ReplyDeleteIt's too bad that Larkin was largely overshadowed by comparable (or even inferior) players in larger markets, and the era he played in as a whole.
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