Jayson Stark was named the 2019 J. G. Taylor Spink Award recipient. Stark was named the 70th honoree on December 11, 2018 “for meritorious contributions to baseball writing.”
The J. G. Taylor Spink Award was named after the inaugural participant in 1962. The winners are voted by the members of the Baseball Writers’ Association of America (BBWAA) and are immortalized in an exclusive part of the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York.
Stark’s Central New York roots come from his time as an undergrad at Syracuse University before graduating with a degree in Journalism in 1973.