G. Taylor Spink Award (named after his original boss at The Sporting News), and was added to the writers' wing of the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1973. In what turned to be an early cross-generational tribute, Lieb received the first SABR salute from the Society for American Baseball Research in 1976. Over his career, Fred Lieb covered every World Series game from 1911 to 1958, 30 All-Star games, and over 8,000 major-league baseball games. Major works Lieb was a prolific writer, contributing to The Sporting News from 1935 to 1980, the St. Petersburg Times from 1965 until his death, The Saturday Evening Post from 1927 to 1933, as well as freelancing for other numerous publications, scoring games in New York, and authoring several books. His 11 books include his memoirs—Baseball As I Have Known It—along with Connie Mack, Grand Old Man of Baseball; The Story of the World Series; The Baseball Story; and team histories of the Detroit Tigers, Boston Red Sox, St. Louis Cardinals, Pittsburgh Pirates, Baltimore Orioles, and Philadelphia Phillies. Notable events Lieb initiated a rule change on February 9, 1920, when he suggested that a game-winning home run with men on base always be counted as a home run, even if its run was not needed to win the game. Previously, the batter would only be credited with a hit sufficient to score the winning run, and not any additional runs. On May 15, 1922, Ty Cobb beat out a grounder to shortstop Everett Scott, and Lieb scored it a hit in the box score he filed with the Associated Press (AP). This contradicted official scorer John Kieran of the New-York Tribune, who ruled the play an error. At the end of the season, American League (AL) official records were compiled using the AP box scores, giving Cobb a .401 batting average. Lieb reversed his call, but AL president Ban Johnson went with the hit call. The New York writers protested to the commissioner on December 14, 1922, claiming that Ty Cobb's batting average should be .399 based on the official scorer's stats, but to no avail. On September 11, 1923, as the official scorer for a Yankees–Red Sox game, Lieb ruled that a ball hit hard past Red Sox third baseman Howard Shanks was a hit. This was much to the chagrin for the Red Sox pitcher Howard Ehmke, who proceeded to retire the