This weekend the Baseball Hall of Fame inducts four players and honors the Ford C. Frick and the J.G. Taylor Spink Awards winners. Both ceremonies have Detroit Tigers ties. Both celebrate two individuals that got away.
Saturday afternoon, current San Diego Padres play-by-play announcer Dick Enberg will receive the Ford C. Frick Award, presented annually for excellence in baseball broadcasting and long-time Tigers beat writer Tom Gage will receive the J.G. Taylor Spink Award “for meritorious contributions to baseball writing.”
While Tigers fans can and should celebrate the national recognition for Gage’s work The Detroit News would be better off keeping a lower profile.