The National Baseball Hall of Fame announced the finalists for the 2021 Ford C. Frick Award, honoring excellence in the field of broadcasting, and two of the eight finalists were a big part of the sounds of the first two decades of Angels baseball.
Buddy Blattner was a longtime national television voice, calling games alongside Dizzy Dean for CBS and ABC in the 1950s, before calling Angels games locally for KTLA from 1962-68, first in Los Angeles and then in Anaheim. In total, Blattner called major league games for 26 seasons.
Don Drysdale is already in Cooperstown as a pitcher for the Dodgers, but also called Angels games from 1973-80, his longest broadcasting stint with any one team.