With humility and grace, Tom Hamilton joined the legends of baseball broadcasting on Saturday as the 2025 Ford C. Frick Award winner.

Sabathia is part of a troupe of three wearing some New York ties that is set to be inducted Sunday at Clark Sports Center. His former teammate with the Yankees, Ichiro Suzuki, and former Mets closer Billy Wagner will join him. And they will be going in with a couple of late greats, Dave Parker and Dick Allen.

After all these years, baseball is about generations. We don’t play the game. We replay the memories — together.

Follow along as Guardians radio voice Tom Hamilton is honored in Cooperstown with the Ford C. Frick Award for broadcasting excellence.

When Tom Hamilton introduced his Wisconsinite parents to the legendary Bob Uecker in the radio booth one day many years ago, Uecker jokingly apologized to them that they were forced to listen to him and not their son when they tuned into Brewers games.

Dave Parker II will speak at the Hall of Fame induction on Sunday, nearly a month after his father died at 74.