White Sox broadcaster Steve Stone and Cubs announcer Pat Hughes have been named among 10 nominees for the Ford Frick Award for excellence in baseball broadcasting by the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum.
Stone has worked 35 seasons on TV in Chicago, 20 with the Cubs and the last 15 with the Sox while also calling national broadcasts for ESPN and TBS. He pitched in the majors for 11 seasons and won the 1980 AL Cy Young Award with the Orioles.
Hughes has called MLB games for 40 seasons, starting with the Twins in 1983 before working Brewers games from 1984-95 and serving as the Cubs’ radio voice for the last 27 seasons.