Customize Consent Preferences

We use cookies to help you navigate efficiently and perform certain functions. You will find detailed information about all cookies under each consent category below.

The cookies that are categorized as "Necessary" are stored on your browser as they are essential for enabling the basic functionalities of the site. ... 

Always Active

Necessary cookies are required to enable the basic features of this site, such as providing secure log-in or adjusting your consent preferences. These cookies do not store any personally identifiable data.

No cookies to display.

Functional cookies help perform certain functionalities like sharing the content of the website on social media platforms, collecting feedback, and other third-party features.

No cookies to display.

Analytical cookies are used to understand how visitors interact with the website. These cookies help provide information on metrics such as the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc.

No cookies to display.

Performance cookies are used to understand and analyze the key performance indexes of the website which helps in delivering a better user experience for the visitors.

No cookies to display.

Advertisement cookies are used to provide visitors with customized advertisements based on the pages you visited previously and to analyze the effectiveness of the ad campaigns.

No cookies to display.

Cleveland radio announcer Tom Hamilton wins HOF’s Frick Award


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.

Hamilton, 70, joined the crew’s broadcast in 1990, when he was with Herb Rating within the sales space and a part of the protection of their World Collection appearances in 1995 and 1997. Hamilton turned the voice of the franchise when Rating retired after that second World Collection.

Hamilton might be honored through the Corridor of Fame’s induction weekend July 25-28 in Cooperstown, New York. He was chosen by the Corridor’s Frick Award 16-member committee because the forty ninth winner.

There have been 10 finalists on this yr’s poll, whose predominant contributions got here as native and nationwide voices and whose careers started after, or prolonged into, the wild-card period. The opposite 9 have 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 accomplice on New York Yankees radio broadcasts. Sterling, 86, retired in April, a number of weeks into his thirty sixth season, however he returned within the remaining week of the common season and labored within the postseason. Sims, 71, has spent the previous 20 years calling Seattle Mariners video games.

Since taking major 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.

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *