It recognizes a sportswriter "for meritorious contributions to baseball writing".

Will's baseball writing is so good, in fact, that he's even being mentioned as a candidate for baseball commissioner.

Gould, who died last year at the age of 60, left a last collection of his baseball writings.

Many of his first baseball writings came while he was doing night shifts as a security guard at the Stokely-Van Camp's pork and beans cannery.

Dryden originated many of the expressions used in baseball writing, including the terms "pinch hit," "ball yard," and "old horsehide."

But of course, there was more of him anyway, and after some genuinely exciting baseball writing, the critic is back in full force to unload on it.

In April 2011 she left BP to join the baseball writing and editorial staff of ESPN.com.

In part, this may be just that we bring less baggage to his baseball writings; politics is the fishing net of random anger.

The award, presented the following year at the annual induction ceremony at the Baseball Hall of Fame, is given for "meritorious contributions to baseball writing".

Lardner's last baseball writing was Lose with a Smile in 1933.