Fans can help Ashburn get into Cooperstown - again
The late Richie Ashburn, a Hall of Fame Phillies player, is one of over 40 former broadcasters eligible for the prestigious Ford C. Frick Award. Fans can help get Ashburn on the final ballot for the award this month.
The broadcasting duo of Harry Kalas and Richie Ashburn is arguably the most popular in Philadelphia sports history. Now you can help the late Ashburn, a Hall of Fame player with the Phillies, receive the most prestigious broadcasting award in baseball.
Ashburn is among the 42 candidates eligible to receive the Ford C. Frick Award from the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y. Beginning this week through Sept. 30, fans can help Ashburn's case by voting on the museum's Facebook page.
The Hall will put the top three vote getters onto the ballot before a Hall of Fame research committee fills out the rest of the ballot early next month. The Frick Award winner will be announced at the Winter Meetings in December.
Kalas, who worked with Ashburn for more than three decades in the Phillies booth, received the Frick Award in 2002.
Among the other candidates for this year's Frick Award, which will go to a broadcaster who worked during the era from the 1950s through the '80s, are fellow Hall of Fame players Dizzy Dean, Pee Wee Reese, Don Drysdale, Harmon Killebrew, Duke Snider and Ralph Kiner, among others.
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