Lest We forget: Larry Whiteside

January 12, 2008

Larry Whiteside, one of the first African-American beat wrietrs to cover a team on a daily basis, died Jan. 11. at the age of 69. He had been a member of the Boston Globe staff since 1973 and wrote for papers in Kansas City and Milwaukee as well.

Whiteside was posthumously elected the 2008 winner of the J.G. Taylor Spink Award in balloting by the Baseball Writers’ Association of America.

Globe columnist Dan Shaughnessy wrote this moving tribute to his colleague.

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