BBWAA Career Excellence Award Winner certificates collection
Scope and Contents
A collection of Baseball Writers Association of America, BBWAA, Career Excellence Award certificates. These are presented yearly, starting in 1962, with the first winner being J.G. Taylor Spink. There were no awards given in 1994 and 2007. This collection does not have a certificate for Charles Dryden, 1965, and Edgar Munzel, 1977. This award honors a baseball writer for meritorious contributions to baseball writing. These winners are also recognized in the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum exhibit "Scribes & Mikemen".
Dates
- 1962-2023
Conditions Governing Access
Materials are open without restrictions but viewing materials does require an appointment. Please contact the Giamatti Research Center, research@baseballhall.org, 607-547-0330.
Conditions Governing Use
The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum provides use copies of materials to facilitate private study, scholarship, and research. The Museum welcomes you to use materials in our collections that are in the public domain and to make fair use of copyrighted materials as defined by copyright law and with proper citation. Permission to publish materials must be obtained from: Giamatti Research Center, National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, 25 Main St., Cooperstown, NY 13326 Phone: 607.547.0330 E-mail: research@baseballhall.org
Biographical / Historical
The BBWAA Career Excellence Award has been voted upon annually since 1962.
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 (BBWAA).
Each award recipient (not to be confused with an inductee) is presented with a certificate during Hall of Fame Weekend and is recognized in the "Scribes & Mikemen" exhibit in the Library of the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
This award was originally named for J.G. Taylor Spink, the longtime editor and publisher of the Sporting News. Weeks before his death in 1962, the Baseball Writers’ Association of America created the award in his honor, naming him the first recipient. Due to Spink’s troubled history in supporting segregated baseball, the BBWAA voted to remove his name from the award in 2021. It remains the most prestigious prize in baseball journalism.
Biographical / Historical
Gail Brill has been a graphic designer for 40 years and a professional calligrapher for 25 years. Her love of the alphabet and hand calligraphy has led her to produce art with a wide range of applications, from lettering on the side of a canoe, to tattoos, to silk prayer flags and beyond.
Extent
1.25 Linear Feet (in 1 flat box)
.49 Cubic Feet
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
A collection of BBWAA Career Excellence Award certificates, starting in 1962 to the current year.
Arrangement
The certificates are arranged in chronological order.
Physical Location
Manuscript Archives, Aisle 2, Range c, Shelf 3
Custodial History
The certificates are commissioned by the Hall of Fame, with one going to the award winner and one remains in the archive collection.
Accruals
Award certificates will be added yearly.
- Title
- Guide to the BBWAA Career Excellence Award Winner certificates collection
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Helen Stiles, Senior Acquistions and Cataloging Specialist, with revisions by Claudette Scrafford, Manuscript Archivist.
- Date
- December 2017
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum Archives Repository