A smattering of hometown voices were finalists for the 2025 Ford C. Frick Award, presented annually for excellence in broadcasting by the National Baseball Hall of Fame, but its the Guardians Tom Hamilton who will be inducted into Cooperstown next July. Gary Cohen, who calls Mets games for SNY, John Sterling, the longtime radio play-by-play announcer for the Yankees, and Dave Sims, Sterlings succe sor who just arrived from the Seattle Mariners, were also up for the award. Other finalists included Skip Caray, Rene Cardenas, Jacques Doucet, Ernie Johnson Sr., Mike Krukow and Duane Kuiper. The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, located in Cooperstown, NY, will induct the Guardians Tom Hamilton as the 2025 Frick Award winner next July. LightRocket via Getty Images Hamilton, who has spent 35 years in Clevelands radio booth and joins TV analyst Rick Manning as the longest-tenured broadcaster in team history, was selected as the Frick Award winner because of his knowledgeable play-by-play and pa sionate calls of some of the franchises most historic moments, Josh Rawitch, president of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum said in a . With an unmatched Danil Gushchin Jersey love for Cleveland, Tom Hamilton has narrated the story of one of the franchises most succe sful eras since joining the teams broadcast crew in 1990. Guardians fans adopted Tom as one of their own as soon as he arrived in Cleveland For a generation of listeners, Tom Hamilton is the very definition of Cleveland baseball, Rawitch said. Explore More Unlike his larger market peers in the Big Apple, Hamilton spent the entirety of his career in the Midwest. Cohen, the 66-year-old Queens native, came up calling games for minor league baseball clubs up and down the east coast before becoming the Mets play-by-play announcer. He spent 17 years as a member of the WFAN radio team and has been calling games on TV since 2006. Gary Cohen comes out from an enclosure behind a huge replica of his baseball card at the Mets Hall of Fame Ceremony before the game when the New York Mets played the Toronto Blue Jays Saturday, June 3, 2023 at Citi Field in Queens, NY. Robert Sabo for NY Post New York Yankees broadcasters John Sterling and Suzyn Waldman pose during a retirement ceremony for Sterling before a baseball game against the Tampa Bay Rays at Yankee Stadium in New York, Saturday, April 20, 2024. AP Pearl Jam guitarist Mike McCready, left, and Mariners broadcaster Dave Sims, right, pose for a photo before McCready performs the national anthem at a baseball game between the Seattle Mariners and the Los Angeles Angels, Sunday, June 2, 2024, in Seattle. AP At around the same time, and right acro s the East River, a Manhannite named John Sterling was coming up calling contests in a host of now-defunct leagues including the WHA, WFL and ABA. In 1989, Sterling a sumed radio duties on WABC Radio and, in 2013, moved to WFAN. In April 2024, Sterling, 86, announced he would be . The longtime Yankees voice returned briefly for the Bombers 2024 playoff run before hanging up the mic for good. After the season ended, in November 2024, WFAN announced they had secured Sterlings permanent replacement, naming Mariners TV announcer Dave Sims, 71, as their . Sims, who worked for WFAN and WCBS-TV earlier in his career, will join Suzyn Waldman in the booth on a full-time basis beginning in 2025. Miikka Kiprusoff Jersey