Dick Kaegel, who jumped from a bi-weekly paper in Illinois to the big leagues as a baseball writer at the Post-Dispatch before more than two decades as a leading voice about the Kansas City Royals, will join friend and colleague Rick Hummel in the writers' wing at the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
The Baseball Writers' Association of America announced Tuesday morning that Kaegel won its highest honor, the Spink Award, in a vote of members with at least 10 years of consecutive years in the BBWAA. The award is given to a writer "for meritorious contributions to baseball writing.