COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. — John Sterling, Gary Cohen and Skip Caray are among the finalists for the Hall of Fame’s Ford C. Frick Award for excellence in baseball broadcasting.
Former Montreal Expos and Montreal-born broadcaster Jacques Doucet was also named a finalist.
Doucet was the play-by-play broadcaster for the Expos’ French radio broadcast for 33 seasons, beginning in 1972. He was previously a finalist for the Frick Award in 2019 and 2022.
He was inducted into the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame in St. Mary’s, Ont. in 2023.
Caray, Tom Hamilton, Duane Kuiper and Ernie Johnson Sr. are holdovers from the 10-man ballot last year when Boston Red Sox radio announcer Joe Castiglione earned the honour.
Sterling, Caray, Rene Cardenas and Dave Sims were new this year after not appearing on last year’s ballot, the Hall said Tuesday.
Joe Buck, Ken Korach and Dan Shulman were on last year but were dropped.
This is the third of four consecutive elections that will consider broadcasters whose careers extend into the wild card era, which began in 1995. The pre-wild card era will be considered in 2026, with voting for the award presented during the Hall of Fame’s 2027 induction weekend.
The winner will be announced on Dec. 11 at the winter meetings in Dallas and honored during the Hall’s July 26 awards presentation, a day ahead of induction ceremonies.
A broadcaster must have 10 continuous years of experience with a network or team to be considered. The ballot was picked by a subcommittee of past winners that includes Castiglione, Marty Brennaman and Eric Nadel along with broadcast historians David J. Halberstam and Curt Smith.
Voters are 13 past winners — Brennaman, Castiglione, Costas, Ken Harrelson, Pat Hughes, Jaime Jarrín, Tony Kubek, Denny Matthews, Al Michaels, Jon Miller, Nadel, Bob Uecker and Dave Van Horne — plus historians Halberstam, Smith and former Dallas Morning News writer Barry Horn.
— With files from Sportsnet Staff