Each winter, the Baseball Hall of Fame chooses a broadcaster to honor with the Ford C. Frick Award.
This year, eight men have been nominated and one of them is a former Cubs broadcaster. Most here will never have heard him call a game, as Pat Flanagan was a Cubs radio announcer on WBBM and WJJD from 1929-43, one of the very first men to call Cubs games on the radio.
The Hall’s Frick Award honorees are nominated in three classes, rotating every three years:
The Frick Award election cycle rotates annually among Current Major League Markets (team-specific announcers); National Voices (broadcasters whose contributions were realized on a national level); and Broadcasting Beginnings (early team voices and pioneers of baseball broadcasting).