Longtime Chicago Cubs radio voice Pat Hughes was named the winner of the Ford C. Frick Award on Wednesday, becoming a member of Jack Brickhouse and Harry Caray among the many all-time broadcasting greats.
Hughes, 67, earned the respect for broadcasting excellence by the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum on his third 12 months on the poll after being named a finalist in 2016 and 2020.
“The Ford C. Frick Award is a highly prestigious award that recognizes the ‘best of the best’ in broadcasting and no one is more deserving of this award than Pat,” Cubs Chairman Tom Ricketts mentioned in an announcement. “Outside of his impressive resume, Pat is a truly wonderful person who cares deeply about Cubs fans and the game of baseball. We’re so incredibly lucky to have had him as a member of the Cubs family for the past 27 seasons and look forward to celebrating this accomplishment, and many more, in the years to come.”
Hughes started his baseball broadcasting profession with the minor-league San Jose Mission in 1978, and after 5 seasons within the minors grew to become the Minnesota Twins TV voice in 1983 and moved on to Milwaukee in 1984. He started his profession with the Cubs in 1996 and just lately accomplished his twenty seventh season on the North Side. Hughes was inducted into the staff’s Hall of Fame in September.
Hughes, the forty seventh winner of the Frick Award, was voted in by a committee that included former winners Ken “Hawk” Harrelson and Bob Uecker, his former companion in Milwaukee. Among the others on the poll was White Sox TV analyst Steve Stone, in his first 12 months as a finalist.
Brickhouse was named winner of the Frick Award in 1983, whereas Caray adopted in 1989.
Hughes will obtain the award on Hall of Fame induction weekend July 21-24 in Cooperstown, N.Y.
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Source: www.bostonherald.com