Thursday, February 14, 2008

No Hawk and D.J.? ridicurous...

Frick Award to be announced Tuesday

The winner of the 2008 Ford C. Frick Award, presented annually to a broadcaster for "major contributions to baseball," will be announced this Tuesday, Feb. 19, at 2 p.m. ET.

Joe Nuxhall (82,304 fan votes), Bill King (7,659) and Joe Morgan (6,065) earned spots on the 10-person ballot through online fan voting. The three fan selections are joined by Tom Cheek, Ken Coleman, Dizzy Dean, Tony Kubek, Graham McNamee, Dave Niehaus and Dave Van Horne. The recipient of the award will be honored during 2008 Hall of Fame Weekend, July 25-28, in Cooperstown, N.Y.

3 comments:

Corms said...

There simply are not enough announcers for this award to be given out annually. Eventually everyone who ever announced a MLB game will have been given the Ford C. Prick award.

Fungster said...

No question.

Sarge said...

Look, until Joe Morgan is enshrined as a broadcaster, Corms, how can you even SAY that?!?