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.