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- Updated: July 24, 2016
COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. — It is of course apt that the man who popularized the phrase “Curse of the Bambino” would have a career colorized by the Yankees-Red Sox rivalry. That career became the focus of the Hall of Fame’s Awards Presentation on Saturday, when longtime Boston Globe columnist Dan Shaughnessy accepted the J.G. Taylor Spink Award for writers.
The Hall also honored late radio voice Graham McNamee with the Ford C. Frick Award for broadcasters, with former winner Dick Enberg calling McNamee a “pioneer” of his field. And New York City Fire Department Battalion Chief Vin Mavaro shared his memories of baseball’s role in helping the nation recover from the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center.
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Shaughnessy, who became the Globe’s national baseball voice five years after rejoining the paper as a Celtics writer in 1981, is best-known for his work covering the Red Sox and their longstanding rivalry with the Yankees. At Saturday’s awards …
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