Ten of the National Pastime’s most honored and respected voices have been named as the finalists for the 2026 Ford C. Frick Award, presented annually for excellence in baseball broadcasting by the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum.

This ballot will mark the fourth of four consecutive elections featuring a composite ballot of local and national voices whose broadcast careers have extended into, or began following, the advent of the Wild Card in 1994. This will be followed by a fifth year in the fall of 2026 featuring a ballot of candidates whose broadcasting careers concluded prior to the Wild Card Era. The cycle then repeats.

The ballot consists of 10 candidates, including a requirement that at least one candidate be a foreign language broadcaster.

The 10 finalists for the 2026

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