Burdick Award finalists

[GeoPoto]

Originally Posted by drcy

As a side note, the Nobel Prize is given only to living people (sorry, Rosalind Franklin fans). There were even questions if John Nash deserved his because, while alive, he hadn't worked in some years due to being schizophrenic.

The Nobel "Prize" is more than recognition/honor, the prize is $$$. It is expected to reward accomplishment and subsidize further discovery, which doesn't work as well with those who have passed.

[drcy]

Originally Posted by GeoPoto

The Nobel "Prize" is more than recognition/honor, the prize is $$$. It is expected to reward accomplishment and subsidize further discovery, which doesn't work as well with those who have passed.

Good point. Except many Nobel Prize winners are really old, and it is given when they are retired.

[Leon]

Congrats to all of the recipients. Very well deserved!
I also hope SABR will do an all inclusive HOF of collectors with our founding fathers (deceased) included. Personally, I don't think there can be anyone ahead of the person named for the award.

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[jason.1969]

Originally Posted by Leon

Congrats to all of the recipients. Very well deserved!

I also hope SABR will do an all inclusive HOF of collectors with our founding fathers (deceased) included. Personally, I don't think there can be anyone ahead of the person named for the award.



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I will take the idea to the Awards Subcommittee. No shortage of deserving folks!

[Exhibitman]

I'd suggest that Beckett was an overall positive contributor to the hobby but less of a pioneer than a refiner. Card publications and card pricing publications preceded Beckett's work but he definitely took it into the modern age. To analogize, he didn't invent the game of baseball but he did organize the modern professional league.

Echoing Al's comments, as a child of the 1970s I too have a soft spot for TCMA. I even collect the cards today.

[TCMA]

Thought you guys might be interested in my new thread, related to the convention my father hosted at his home 50 years ago today :

https://www.net54baseball.com/showth...37#post1962237