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Congratulating, Recognizing, and Honoring Philadelphia's Jayson Stark for Receiving the 2019 J.G. Taylor Spink Award as One of the Nation's Premier Baseball Writers.
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WHEREAS, Selected by the Baseball Writers' Association of America for meritorious contributions to baseball writing, Philadelphia's Jayson Stark is the recipient of the 2019 J.G. Taylor Spink Award; and
WHEREAS, Stark's contributions to baseball writing will be memorialized in the "Scribes & Mikemen" exhibit in the Library of the National Baseball Hall of Fame. He will be presented with a certificate during Hall of Fame Weekend in July, as the newest class of inductees into the National Baseball Hall of Fame is enshrined in Cooperstown, New York; and
WHEREAS, Jayson Stark is legendary for combining encyclopedic knowledge with a knack for revealing the humorous, wacky, and statistically and historically rare aspects of the game of baseball; and
WHEREAS, A native of Northeast Philadelphia, Jayson Stark made a name for himself while achieving a childhood dream, spending 21 years as a Philadelphia Phillies beat writer and national baseball columnist for the Philadelphia Inquirer beginning in 1979-just in time to cover the Phillies' 1980 World Series title. In 2000, he joined ESPN, where he spent the next 17 years as a writer and on-air personality. He now writes for The Athletic and appears on MLB Network; and
WHEREAS, Jayson Stark's national platform has not diminished his love of his hometown and its Phillies. Following the Phillies' 2008 World Series Championship, Stark wrote Worth the Wait: Tales of the 2008 Phillies. Reflecting on the euphoria of winning, Stark wrote, "It makes no sense that something as theoretically unimportant as sports could be the best psychotherapy ever invented. But you'll never convince the lucky residents of the Philadelphia metropolitan area that it's not." His writing has enthralled Philadelphia sports fans for decades, through the highs and lows; and
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