SAN DIEGO -- Longtime Boston Globe sportswriter Nick Cafardo was selected as the 2020 winner of the J.G. Taylor Spink Award on Tuesday in balloting by the Baseball Writers' Association of America.
Cafardo will be honored posthumously in July during Hall of Fame weekend in Cooperstown, New York. Cafardo, 62, died during spring training in February at the training facility of the Boston Red Sox in Florida.
Cafardo is the 71st Spink winner, an honor first given out in 1962 to honor sportswriters "for meritorious contributions to baseball writing." He received 243 votes from 427 ballots cast by BBWAA members.