Vote for the Frick Award

The Ford C. Frick award is the award given to the baseball broadcaster who is named to the National Baseball Hall of Fame. This year fans can vote on who the finalists for the award could be.

Fans can honor favorite broadcaster

Baseball fans whose appreciation of the game has been enhanced by the sounds emanating from broadcast booths have the opportunity to reward their favorite announcers by placing them in consideration for being honored by the National Baseball Hall of Fame.

Balloting for the Ford C. Frick Award for broadcasting excellence begins at midnight ET Thursday, and the three announcers who receive the most votes by the fans automatically qualify for the 10-member ballot that will be formulated by a 20-member committee and announced on Dec. 4. The winner will be announced Feb. 19, 2008, and will receive the award during the Induction Ceremony on July 27 at the Clark Sports Center in Cooperstown, N.Y.

Follow that link up at the top for the link where you can vote for three nominees.

Former Milwaukee Braves announcer Earl Gillespie, former Brewer announcer Merle Harmon, current Seattle Mariner announcer Dave Niehaus, and personal favorite Vince Lloyd are among the ginourmous list of nominees.

The winner joins these guys and receives a plaque that looks like this....


...in a wing off to the side of the main plaque room at the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY.