White Sox TV play-by-play announcer Ken “Hawk” Harrelson and Cubs radio play-by-play man Pat Hughes have been named finalists for the 2017 Ford C. Frick Award, which the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum presents annually for excellence in broadcasting.
Other finalists for the award include Gary Cohen, Jacques Doucet, Bill King, Mike Krukow, Ned Martin and Dewayne Staats. The winner will be announced Dec. 7 at baseball’s winter meetings after a vote by a panel that includes the 13 living Frick Award recipients and four broadcast historians and columnists.
The 2017 Frick Award focuses on team-specific announcers, while the award will rotate to national voices in 2018 and broadcast pioneers and early team voices in 2019.