Bob Dutton Addresses the BBWAA Inclusion Process

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Baseball Writers Membership
Published 12/10/2007 by StatsGuru at Baseball Musings
... December 10, 2007 Baseball Writers Membership Maury Brown interviews Bob Dutton , president of the BBWAA about the recent additions to the association. Posted by David Pinto at ...

The Biz of Baseball: Brown: Bob Dutton Addresses the BBWAA Inclusion Process
Published 12/10/2007 at BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog
The Biz of Baseball: Brown: Bob Dutton Addresses the BBWAA Inclusion Process The multi-threaded craniopagus parasiticustom continues! And the extensive... ...

Gatekeepers
Published 12/10/2007 by Shyster at ShysterBall
Today Maury Brown interviews KC Star writer and BBWAA President Bob Dutton about L'Affaire NeyerLaw and the process for credentialing members. Dutton addresses what has turned out to be the central issue in the controversy, which is the alleged need to be at the ballpark a lot to be a member, and Neyer and Law's alleged lack of a ...

Tear Down This Wall
Published 12/11/2007 by Rich at Baseball Analysts
... took turns at pointing fingers, asking questions, and providing answers while trying to get to the bottom of the real story. The real story took a turn for the better when the President of the Baseball Writers Association of America, Bob Dutton, agreed to be interviewed by fellow Kansas City Star writer and member of the BBWAA Joe Posnanski (Talking with the Prez), as well as Maury Brown of The Biz of Baseball (Bob Dutton Addresses the BBWAA Inclusion Process). To Dutton's credit, he has ...

Mitch Albom has a HoF vote; Rob Neyer doesn’t
Published 1/1/2008 by Kurt at Mack Avenue Tigers
As I was watching hockey played outdoors and browsing the SportsJournalists.com forum, I ran into an interesting post: Joe Sheehan vs. BBWAA. It refers to Sheehan’s recent article at Baseball Prospectus stating the Baseball Writers Association, which presents the MVP awards, among others, and votes on the Hall of Fame, excludes most Internet writers such as Sheehan or ESPN.com’s Rob Neyer. (Not all are excluded, several online writers are now members.) Meanwhile, the names on the BBWAA badge list are sometimes confounding and serve to make Sheehan’s point: You don’t even have to cover baseball to be a member, as ...