DALLAS (WKBN) — Tom Hamilton, the long-time “Voice of the Guardians” has been named the 2025 recipient of the Ford C. Frick Award, presented by the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, NY.
The honor, which is presented annually for excellence in broadcasting by the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, was announced at the MLB Winter meetings in Dallas on Wednesday.
Hamilton, who was a four-time finalist for the award, has called Cleveland baseball games for 35 years.
He will be honored during the Hall of Fame Awards Presentation as part of Hall of Fame Weekend, July 25-28, 2025.
Hamilton becomes the 49th winner of the Frick Award, as he earned the highest point total in a vote conducted by the Hall of Fame’s 16-member Frick Award Committee.
“With an unmatched love for Cleveland, Tom Hamilton has narrated the story of one of the franchise’s most successful eras since joining the team’s broadcast crew in 1990,” said Josh Rawitch, President of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. “Guardians fans adopted Tom as one of their own as soon as he arrived in Cleveland thanks to his knowledgeable play-by-play and passionate calls of some of the franchise’s most historic moments. For a generation of listeners, Tom Hamilton is the very definition of Cleveland baseball.”
A seven-time winner of the Ohio Sportscaster of the Year Award, Hamilton has called more than 100 postseason games and is the only broadcaster in franchise history to call three different Cleveland World Series teams.
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