He is the author of Stepping Up: The Story of Curt Flood and His Fight for Baseball Players’ Rights and The Dudes Abide: The Coen Brothers and The Making of “The Big Lebowski” (a Kindle Single). Previously, he was one of the original Yankee bloggers his long-running Bronx Banter, an outlet for Yankee fans to praise and condemn their beloved Bronx Bombers, was dubbed “a New York treasure” by The Village Voice. The 2020 Salin Award recipient, ALEX BELTH is dedicated to preserving great journalism and writing about arts and culture as the editor of Esquire Classic, the magazine’s digital archive, as well as his own archive site, The Stacks Reader. Over the years, this preoccupation blossomed into a passion for the study and research of unsung players and forgotten aspects of baseball history which he felt were important to document and keep alive for future generations. Baseball” by family and friends, whom he regularly astounded with his exhaustive knowledge of facts and trivia related to old-time ballplayers. From the time he was eight years old, Salin was referred to as “Mr. The festivities will also include the presentation of the 2020 Hilda Award and the induction of the 2020 class of electees to the Baseball Reliquary’s Shrine of the Eternals: Rube Foster, Max Patkin, and Bob Costas.Įstablished in 2002 to recognize individuals for their commitment to the preservation of baseball history, the Tony Salin Memorial Award is named in honor of the baseball historian, author, and Reliquarian who passed away in 2001. The award will be formally presented at the Shrine of the Eternals 2020 Induction Day, which, due to the coronavirus pandemic, has been postponed until 2021. The Board of Directors of the Baseball Reliquary is pleased to announce that Alex Belth has been selected as the recipient of the 2020 Tony Salin Memorial Award.
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