The National Baseball Hall of Fame has announced its 10 finalists for the 2024 Ford C. Frick Award.
The award is bestowed upon one baseball broadcaster each year for excellence in the broadcasting medium.
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.
The 10 finalists for the 2024 award are:
-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.
Eligibility for the award requires an active or retired broadcaster to have a minimum of 10 years of continuous major league experience for a club, network or combination of the two.
Voting for the winner will be done by a group of 15 people consisting of the 12 living Frick Award winners and historians/columnists David J. Halberstam, Curt Smith and Barry Horn. Among the 12 former recipients of the award voting for the 2024 winner include Marty Brennaman, Bob Costas, Al Michaels, Jon Miller, and Bob Uecker.
The winner will be announced on Wednesday, December 6th, and honored on Saturday July 20, 2024 as part of Hall of Fame Weekend in Cooperstown.
