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Several Prominent Baseball Broadcasters Up For Prestigious Hall of Fame Award

Several prominent baseball voices including Dan Shulman and Joe Buck are up for the Ford C. Frick Award.
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Several Prominent Baseball Broadcasters Up For Prestigious Hall of Fame Award
Several Prominent Baseball Broadcasters Up For Prestigious Hall of Fame Award

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The 10 nominees for the Ford C. Frick Award and recognition in the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown for 2024 are out.

Per the Baseball Hall of Fame:

The Ford C. Frick Award is presented annually to a broadcaster for "major contributions to baseball." The award, named after the late broadcaster, National League President, Commissioner, and Hall of Famer, has been presented annually since 1978. Frick was a driving force behind the creation of the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown and he helped foster the relationship between radio and the game of baseball.

According to Barrett Sports Media, these are the nominees for this year:

The 2024 finalists are all local and national voices whose broadcast careers extended into, or began following, the advent of the wild card in 1994. In 2027, the finalists and winners of the award will be pre-Wild Card era.

-Former FOX Sports and current ESPN broadcaster Joe Buck
-Boston Red Sox radio voice Joe Castiglione
-New York Mets television announcer Gary Cohen
-Former Montreal Expos and Toronto Blue Jays French TV announcer Jacques Doucet
-Cleveland Guardians radio voice Tom Hamilton
-Former Atlanta Braves announcer Ernie Johnson Sr.
-Former Chicago White Sox and current Oakland A’s radio play-by-play man Ken Korach
-San Francisco Giants TV voice Mike Krukow
-San Francisco Giants TV analyst Duane Kuiper
-ESPN and Toronto Blue Jays TV voice Dan Shulman.

Each of these voices would be fine choices for recognition.

The winner is decided on Dec. 6th and recognized during Hall of Fame weekend in July.

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Brady Farkas
BRADY FARKAS

Brady Farkas is a baseball writer for Fastball on Sports Illustrated/FanNation and the host of 'The Payoff Pitch' podcast which can be found on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Videos on baseball also posted to YouTube. Brady has spent nearly a decade in sports talk radio and is a graduate of Oswego State University. You can follow him on Twitter @WDEVRadioBrady. 

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