Immortality conferred on BBWAA members

"The official scorers for the (2008) All-Star Game are

• Bob Dutton of The Kansas City Star,

• Dan Graziano of The Star-Ledger in Newark, New Jersey,

and Bill Shannon, a veteran Major League Baseball scorer."

• From MLB.com, 6/25/08

"The Official Scorer," Baseball Analysts by David Vincent, 8/18/05

• "Until 1980, newspaper writers held these positions. However, those papers decided that this was causing a conflict of interest for someone who had to interview field personnel to write a story. Thus, baseball started hiring independent contractors to fill the job of official scorer."

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