Pioneer Black Journalist Whiteside Honored

By: Boston Globe sportswriter Larry Whiteside, a pioneer for blacks for nearly a half-century in journalism, was honored Wednesday with the J.G. Taylor Spink Award for meritorious contributions to baseball writing.

Whiteside, who died in June at 69 from complications of Parkinson's disease, will be recognized during the Hall of Fame induction ceremonies July 27 in Cooperstown, N.Y.

Whiteside received 203 votes from the members of the Baseball Writers' Association of America. Nick Peters, who retired this year from The Sacramento Bee, got 119 votes and the Tribune's Dave Van Dyck, a baseball writer for 25 years, picked up 89.

Whiteside worked for the Boston Globe from 1973 until he was sidelined by Parkinson's disease in the past decade. He was on the expert panel that selected baseball's all-century team.