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Skip Caray, Rene Cardenas, Gary Cohen, Jacques Doucet, Duane
Kuiper and John Sterling return from last year's ballot, when
Tom Hamilton was elected to receive the 2025 award.
Joe Buck is back after being dropped last year, and Dan Shulman
is on for the third time in four years.
Cohen and Doucet have appeared on four straight ballots, and
Kuiper also was on the ballot for the 2023 award.
This is the fourth of four consecutive elections that will
consider broadcasters whose careers extend into the wild card
era, which began in 1995. The pre-wild card era will be
considered in 2026 voting for the award presented during the
Hall of Fame’s 2027 induction weekend, and the cycle will then
repeat over the next five years.
The winner will be announced Dec. 10 at the winter meetings in
Orlando, Florida, and honored during the Hall’s July 25 awards
presentation, a day ahead of induction ceremonies.
A broadcaster must have 10 continuous years of experience with a
network or team to be considered, and the ballot was picked by a
subcommittee of past winners that includes Marty Brennaman, Joe
Castiglione and Bob Costas along with broadcast historians David
J. Halberstam and Curt Smith. At least one candidate must be a
foreign-language broadcaster.
Voters are 13 past winners — Brennaman, Castiglione, Costas, Ken
Harrelson, Pat Hughes, Jaime Jarrín, Tony Kubek, Denny Matthews,
Al Michaels, Jon Miller, Eric Nadel and Dave Van Horne — plus
historians Halberstam, Smith and former Dallas Morning News
writer Barry Horn.
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