Cooperstown is about career numbers. The longtime Washington Post columnist got there through more than a half-century of words.

Thomas Boswell, a reporter and columnist for The Washington Post for 52 years until his retirement in 2021, won the BBWAA Career Excellence Award for meritorious contributions to baseball writing.

After an iconic 52-year career at The Washington Post that ended in 2021, Thomas Boswell was elected the winner of the 2025 BBWAA Career Excellence Award on Tuesday. The annual honor, in its 76th year,

Boswell, whose 52-year career at The Washington Post included coverage of 44 World Series, will receive career excellence award in Cooperstown, New York.

Boswell joins a prestigious cavalcade of writers previously honored, including such luminaries as Ring Lardner (1963), Grantland Rice (1966), Damon Runyon (1967), Fred Lieb (1972), Shirley Povich (1975), Red Smith (1976), Jim Murray (1987), Wendell Smith (1993), Roger Angell (2014) and Claire Smith (2017).