Harry Heilmann
“As an announcer, the early Heilmann resembled a Boy George on the Metropolitan Opera,” wrote Curt Smith in his anthology Voices of the Game. “He favored slang; he painted word-pictures by number; he met the English language and, ambushed, fled behind his Maginot Line.”
He did possess a wealth of stories, however, of peers like Cobb and Babe Ruth that delighted listeners. And, as Ford C. Frick Award winner Ernie Harwell recalled, “He got better, working at it as he had his hitting, and he stayed on the air long enough to become popular in his own right.”
2016 Ford C. Frick Award Ballot
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2016 Ford C. Frick Award Ballot
Winner to be Announced at Baseball’s Winter Meetings in December
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Happy Chandler
Inducted:
1982
Position:
Executive

Ty Cobb
Inducted:
1936
Position:
Center Fielder

Ed Delahanty
Inducted:
1945
Position:
Left Fielder

Harry Heilmann
Inducted:
1952
Position:
Right Fielder

Rogers Hornsby
Inducted:
1942
Position:
2nd Baseman

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Inducted:
1936
Position:
Right Fielder