2021 Baseball HOF season begins with the Frick Award Finalists

[stevejrogers]

Finalists named for who will join Ken “Hawk” Harrelson as getting the Frick award next year, hopefully anyway



https://baseballhall.org/discover/2021-frick-award-ballot-announcedhttps://baseballhall.org/discover/2021-frick-award-ballot-announced

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The eight finalists for the 2021 Frick Award are: Buddy Blattner, Joe Buck, Dave Campbell, Dizzy Dean, Don Drysdale, Ernesto Jerez, Al Michaels and Dan Shulman. The winner of the 2021 Frick Award will be announced on Dec. 9 and will be honored during the July 24 Awards Presentation as part of the July 23-26 Hall of Fame Weekend 2021 in Cooperstown, along with 2020 Frick Award winner Ken Harrelson[/bLOCKQUOTE]

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Where's Gary?

[stevejrogers]

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[MFS62]

Dizzy Dean mangled the English language. His most memorable quote was "Zarilla slud into third".

Dave Campbell had a minor league season during which he hit 20 HR and had 36 RBI. That made me sure the Mets would try to acquire him. I'm guessing Buddy Blatner gets in, Buck? And is Al Michaels really remembered as a baseball announcer?

Later

[Frayed Knot]

Michaels did both the Reds & Giants locally in addition to his work on national games.

[MFS62]

Frayed Knot wrote: Michaels did both the Reds & Giants locally in addition to his work on national games.

Didn't know that. Then he might get into announcers wings of both the baseball and football halls.

Later

[stevejrogers]

Frayed Knot wrote: Michaels did both the Reds & Giants locally in addition to his work on national games. Didn't know that. Then he might get into announcers wings of both the baseball and football halls. Later

Marty Brennaman replaced Michaels in the Reds booth back in 1974.



For some reason Michaels' call of the play that ended the 1972 NLCS (George Foster scoring on a Bob Moose wild pitch) was in heavy rotation for WFAN's “great sports moments call bumpers” they ran in their early days.



I mean it was a great call, but it was a local Cincy broadcast call airing on a New York radio station!

[Lefty Specialist]

Hawk Harrelson was one of the worst baseball announcers, like, ever.