Meritorious
Mark Singer on Roger Angell, who travelled to the National Baseball Hall of Fame to receive the J. G. Taylor Spink Award “for meritorious contributions to baseball writing.”
"Ross says Roger's just the best of the best. Like Mozart." — Connie Newhan, demurring when Angell calls her husband "the Frank Robinson of baseball writers." At Cooperstown, Angell introduces friends to Johnny Bench and George Brett while accepting the Spink Award.