Past recipients
Source: [3]
- 1972 –
Barney Nagler - 1973 – Dave Anderson
- 1974 – Jack Hand, Murray Rose
- 1975 – Red Smith
- 1976 – Jesse Abramson
- 1977 – Bob Waters
- 1978 – Jerry Izenberg
- 1979 – Ed Schuyler
- 1980 – Tom Cushman
- 1981 – Michael Katz
- 1982 – Pat Putnam
- 1983 – Vic Ziegel
- 1984 – John Schulian
- 1985 – George Kimball
- 1986 –
Hugh McIlvaney - 1987 – Elmer Smith
- 1988 – Tom Archdeacon
- 1989 – Jim Murray
- 1990 – Bert Sugar
- 1991 – Stan Hochman
- 1992 – Ken Jones
- 1993 – Ron Borges
- 1994 – Wallace Matthews
- 1995 – Robert Seltzer
- 1996 – Royce Feour
- 1997 – Alan Goldstein
- 1998 – Bernard Fernandez
- 1999 – Tim Dahlberg
- 2000 – Jay Searcy
- 2001 – Richard Hoffer
- 2002 – Steve Springer
- 2004 – Thomas Hauser
- 2005 – Tim Smith
- 2006 – Kevin Iole
- 2007 – Steve Sneddon
- 2008 – Norm Frauenheim
- 2009 – None
- 2010 – Steve Farhood
- 2011 – Colin Hart
- 2012 – Dave Kindred
- 2013 – Dan Rafael
- 2014 – Mark Whicker
- 2015 – William Gildea
- 2016 – Bill Dwyre
- 2017 – Michael Rosenthal
- 2018 – Thom Loverro
- 2019 – Graham Houston
- 2020 – Joe Maxse
- 2021 – Mark Kriegel
- 2022 – Lance Pugmire
- 2023 – Nigel Collins
- 2024 – Tom Gerbasi
