The Baseball Hall of Fame announced Wednesday that Graham McNamee, who called 12 World Series on radio from 1923 to 1934, was elected the winner of its Ford C. Frick Award for broadcasting.
McNamee had not received strong consideration in past ballots when he competed against more contemporary, familiar announcers. But he was an 18-member committee’s top vote-getter in a new system that alternates voting annually among three eras, including the earliest years of baseball broadcasting through the mid-1950s.
He was one of 10 finalists in a group that included France Laux, Al Helfer and Bert Wilson.