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BBWAA - definition of BBWAA in Encyclopedia (107 words) |
 | Founded in 1908 as the Baseball Writers Association of America, the BBWAA is a professional association for baseball journalists writing for daily newspapers and magazines. |
| The BBWAA was founded to improve working conditions for sportswriters in the early part of the 20th century. |
| Currently the BBWAA's major function is the election of players to the Baseball Hall of Fame. |
| Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, 1946 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (2929 words) |
| In helping to ease the BBWAA's task, they initially intended only to select popular candidates whose peak years were before 1905; but they later decided that clearing the BBWAA logjam would require that they forgo their earlier limitation to the 19th century, and cover the entire period before 1920. |
| As a result, almost all of their 21 selections over the two years played in the 25-year period between 1893 (when baseball moved the pitcher back 10 feet from the plate) and 1917; all of their selections were active players in 1893 or later, with 11 playing their entire careers within that span. |
| The BBWAA members who supported the selection of these inductees are more appropriate targets for criticism than the Old-Timers Committee, which was essentially confirming their votes; the committee elected the same candidates the BBWAA had been trying to elect. |
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