DALLAS (AP) — Jim Trdinich of the Pittsburgh Pirates has won the Robert O. Fishel Award for public relations excellence, given annually by Major League Baseball.
Trdinich, the Pirates’ director of media relations, finished his 23rd season as a fulltime employee of the Pirates and his 27th in Major League Baseball. He began with the Pirates in 1985 as an intern, spent two years at the NL office, then rejoined the Pirates in 1989.
The award, announced Monday, is named after the inaugural winner, who worked for the Cleveland Indians, St. Louis Browns, New York Yankees and the American League.
