COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. — John Sterling (Yankees), Gary Cohen (Mets) and Skip Caray (Braves) are among the many finalists for the Corridor of Fame’s Ford C. Frick Award for excellence in baseball broadcasting.
Caray, Jacques Doucet (Montreal Expos), Tom Hamilton (Guardians), Duane Kuiper (Giants) and Ernie Johnson Sr. (Braves) are holdovers from the 10-man poll final 12 months, when Boston Purple Sox radio announcer Joe Castiglione earned the honour.
Sterling, Caray, Rene Cardenas and Dave Sims had been new this 12 months after not showing on final 12 months’s poll, the Corridor stated Tuesday.
Joe Buck, Ken Korach and Dan Shulman had been on final 12 months however had been dropped.
That is the third of 4 consecutive elections that can take into account broadcasters whose careers prolong into the wild-card period, which started in 1995. The pre-wild card period will likely be thought of in 2026 voting for the award introduced throughout the Corridor of Fame’s 2027 induction weekend.
The winner will likely be introduced Dec. 11 on the winter conferences in Dallas and honored throughout the Corridor’s July 26 awards presentation, a day forward induction ceremonies.
A broadcaster will need to have 10 steady years of expertise with a community or workforce to be thought of, and the poll was picked by a subcommittee of previous winners that features Castiglione, Marty Brennaman and Eric Nadel together with broadcast historians David J. Halberstam and Curt Smith.
Voters are 13 previous winners — Brennaman, Castiglione, Costas, Ken Harrelson, Pat Hughes, Jaime JarrÃn, Tony Kubek, Denny Matthews, Al Michaels, Jon Miller, Nadel, Bob Uecker and Dave Van Horne — plus historians Halberstam, Smith and former Dallas Morning Information author Barry Horn.
The Related Press contributed to this story.
