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Cheek, King, Doucet Top Vote-getters in Frick Award Facebook Poll
Tom Cheek, Bill King and Jacques Doucet received the most votes in the Ford C. Frick Award ballot voting in September at the Baseball Hall of Fame's Facebook site.
Cheek, King and Doucet will be placed on the ballot for the 2011 Frick Award, along with seven other legendary baseball broadcasters. The complete ballot will be announced in the coming weeks. The winner of the 2011 Frick Award will be announced at Baseball's Winter Meetings Dec. 5-8 in Orlando, Fla.
Cheek, who spent 31 seasons in the radio broadcast booth with the Expos and Blue Jays -- the last 28 (1977-2004) in Toronto -- received 11,661 votes, the second straight year Cheek has paced all candidates in votes. King, who spent 25 seasons as the A's lead radio play-by-play voice, received the second-most votes with 4,758. Doucet, who spent his entire 34-year career as the Expos' French play-by-play radio voice, finished third with 2,715 votes. Over 21,000 votes were recorded in the poll.
Complete bios of all candidates are available here.
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This Day in Baseball History
On May 22, 1911, Clifford Curtis of the Boston Braves sets a major league record by losing his 23rd consecutive game. Curtis had begun the streak by losing a game on June 13, 1910. Curtis’ record will eventually be broken by Anthony Young, a luckless right-hander with the New York Mets.