Dec 11, 2024 11:17 PM IST
Cleveland radio announcer Tom Hamilton wins Corridor of Fame’s Frick Award for broadcasting excellence
DALLAS — Tom Hamilton, who has known as Cleveland video games on the radio for 35 seasons, gained the Corridor of Fame’s Ford C. Frick Award for excellence in broadcasting on Wednesday.
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Hamilton, 70, joined the group’s broadcast in 1990, when he was with Herb Rating within the sales space and a part of the protection of their World Sequence appearances in 1995 and 1997. Hamilton turned the voice of the franchise when Rating retired after that second World Sequence.
Hamilton can be honored throughout the Corridor of Fame’s induction weekend from July 25-28 in Cooperstown, New York. He was chosen the corridor’s Frick Award 16-member committee because the forty ninth winner.
There have been 10 finalists on this yr’s poll, whose fundamental contributions got here as native and nationwide voices and whose careers started after, or prolonged into, the Wild Card period. The opposite 9 had been Skip Caray, Rene Cardenas, Gary Cohen, Jacques Doucet, Ernie Johnson Sr., Mike Krukow, Duane Kuiper, Dave Sims and John Sterling.
Sims subsequent season replaces Sterling as Suzyn Waldman’s play-by-play associate on New York Yankees radio broadcasts. Sterling, 86, retired in April, a couple of weeks into his thirty sixth season, however he returned within the last week of the common season and labored within the postseason. Sims, 71, has spent the final 20 years calling Seattle Mariners video games.
Since taking main play-by-play duties following Rating’s retirement in 1997, Hamilton has partnered with Mike Hegan, Dave Nelson, Jim Rosenhaus and Matt Underwood on WWWE-AM and WTAM-AM, the longtime radio house of the Guardians.
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