PRINTER'S NO. 848
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE RESOLUTION
No.
141
Session of
2019
INTRODUCED BY SANTARSIERO, JUNE 3, 2019
INTRODUCED AND ADOPTED, JUNE 3, 2019
A RESOLUTION
Congratulating Jayson Stark, a resident of Newtown,
Pennsylvania, who was elected the 2019 winner of the J.G.
Taylor Spink Award in balloting by the Baseball Writers'
Association of America.
WHEREAS, Jayson Stark, who for more than four decades has
exhibited passion and humor in equal measure in his baseball
coverage, was elected the 2019 winner of the J.G. Taylor Spink
Award by the Baseball Writers' Association of America; and
WHEREAS, The J.G. Taylor Spink Award is presented annually to
a sportswriter "for meritorious contributions to baseball
writing"; and
WHEREAS, Mr. Stark is receiving the award during the National
Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum's induction weekend in July
2019 in Cooperstown, New York; and
WHEREAS, Mr. Stark received 270 votes from the 463 ballots to
become the 70th honoree since the award's inception in 1962,
when J.G. Taylor Spink received the honor; and
WHEREAS, Mr. Stark, a Philadelphia native and Syracuse
University graduate, had his first taste of big-league coverage
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for the Providence Journal on the Boston Red Sox beat before
returning to his hometown to cover the Phillies, including their
first World Series championship in 1980; and
WHEREAS, Mr. Stark made his mark in Philadelphia for 21 years
as a Phillies beat writer and national baseball columnist for
the Inquirer and nationally for 17 years as senior baseball
writer at ESPN.com; and
WHEREAS, Mr. Stark's popular "Baseball Week in Review" is a
master example of that baseball writing staple -- the notes
column -- in which Jayson curates all things weird, wacky,
unique, statistically inclined and historically rare in the
game; and
WHEREAS, Mr. Stark is the author of three books on baseball,
has won an Emmy for his work on Baseball Tonight and is a two-
time winner of the Pennsylvania Sportswriter of the Year Award;
and
WHEREAS, Topps issued a Jayson Stark baseball card in 2017;
therefore be it
RESOLVED, That the Senate congratulate Jayson Stark, who has
been at the pinnacle of his profession for decades, on being
elected the 2019 winner of the J.G. Taylor Spink Award in
balloting by the Baseball Writers' Association of America.
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