COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. — Chicago White Sox TV analyst Steve Stone and Chicago Cubs radio play-by-play voice Pat Hughes are among the 10 finalists for the Hall of Fame’s 2023 Ford C. Frick Award for excellence in baseball broadcasting.
Also announced as finalists Wednesday were former major-leaguers Dave Campbell, Duane Kuiper and Ernie Johnson Sr. as well as Joe Castiglione, Gary Cohen, Jacques Doucet, Tom Hamilton and Jerry Howarth.
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The winner will be announced Dec. 7 at the winter meetings in San Diego and honored July 22 as part of the Hall of Fame induction weekend in Cooperstown.
Stone, the 1980 AL Cy Young Award winner for the Baltimore Orioles, has broadcast White Sox games on television for 15 years after 20 years with the Cubs. He also has worked for ESPN.
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Hughes has been a Cubs radio broadcaster for 27 seasons after spending 1983 with the Minnesota Twins and 1984-95 with the Milwaukee Brewers.
Campbell worked at ESPN from 1990-2008 and also called games for the San Francisco Giants, San Diego Padres and Colorado Rockies. He spent eight seasons as a major-league infielder.
Kuiper has broadcast Giants games for 36 seasons after 12 seasons as a second baseman for Cleveland and San Francisco.
Johnson, who died in 2011, was a big-league pitcher for nine seasons and broadcast Milwaukee/Atlanta Braves games from 1962-91 and 1995-99.
Castiglione has spent 43 years broadcasting major-league games, the last 40 as the lead radio voice of the Boston Red Sox.
Cohen is in his 34th season with the New York Mets and is the play-by-play voice on SNY.
Doucet spent 33 years as the Montreal Expos radio play-by-play voice through 2004 and has been calling Toronto Blue Jays games in French since 2012.
Hamilton is in his 33rd season broadcasting Cleveland games on radio.
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Howarth was the Blue Jays radio play-by-play voice from 1981-2017.
