Posthumous Award
In July 2007, Whiteside was selected by a Baseball Writers Association of America committee as one of three finalists for the J. G. Taylor Spink Award, and he was announced as the winner on December 5 following a vote by the BBWAA membership; he was honored in July 2008 with inclusion in the writers' wing of the Baseball Hall of Fame. Whiteside is the first African-American beat writer to receive the Spink Award.
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