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Longtime Oakland voice King a Frick Award finalist

The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum on Monday announced the eight finalists for the 2017 Ford C. Frick Award, presented annually for excellence in baseball broadcasting.

The finalists are: Gary Cohen, Jacques Doucet, Ken Harrelson, Pat Hughes, Bill King, Mike Krukow, Ned Martin and Dewayne Staats. King and Martin are deceased.

The winner will be announced on Dec. 7 at the Winter Meetings, and will be honored on July 29 during Hall of Fame Weekend in Cooperstown, N.Y.

Cohen has spent the last 28 years with the Mets and is the team's television play-by-play voice on SNY.