Tom Cheek will have to wait at least another year to get into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
The Hall of Fame announced yesterday that Dave Niehaus, the only broadcaster the Seattle Mariners have ever known in their 31 years of existence, is this year's winner of the Ford C. Frick Award, presented annually for major contributions to baseball broadcasting.
Cheek, who was one of the 10 finalists for the award, called 4,306 consecutive games for the Blue Jays. He died in 2005.
From the Toronto Star
This is the fourth straight year that Cheek has been named among the ten finalists for the award.
Come on now people, with all due respect to the other announcers out there, give the brother a break!
Cheek's best-known call was perhaps his description of Joe Carter's dramatic title-clinching home run in Game 6 of the 1993 World Series, when he said, "Touch 'em all, Joe! You'll never hit a bigger home run in your life!"
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