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ESPN and San Francisco Giants radio broadcaster Jon Miller was named the 2010 recipient of the Ford C. Frick Award by the Baseball Hall of Fame Monday. The award -- in its 33rd year -- is given out for major contributions in baseball broadcasting, and recipients typically give a speech during the Hall of Fame induction ceremony in Cooperstown during late July.Miller has been the voice of ESPN's Sunday Night Baseball telecasts for the last 20 years and, in addition to the Giants, has worked for the Orioles, Rangers, Red Sox and A's during a career that stretches back to 1974.
"For every young broadcaster, finding out who he is and becoming that person on the air is a real key," Miller said of his broadcasting journey during a conference call with the media. "Ultimately I found out who I was.
"You're out there for three hours a night, and whoever you are is going to come out."
Miller said he was surprised to receive the award, in large part because colleague Mike Krukow congratulated him on being one of the 10 finalists and then erroneously informed him that he wasn't in the final three under consideration for the award earlier in the winter.
"I think it was actually good that I assumed that I had not won," Miller said.
The venerable play-by-play man spent much of the conference call talking about the baseball men he looked up to growing up.
"You grew up with idols in the game, like Willie Mays in my case, and with idols in the booth, and that was [former Giants announcing duo] Russ Hodges and Lon Simmons, and [Dodgers announcer] Vin Scully," Miller said.
"There's tension, there's drama [in baseball]," he added, "and I think the real top broadcasters ... had a great sense of being able to translate that tension, to paint that picture and put you right in the ballpark."
By doing the same during his illustrious career, Miller will join them this summer in Cooperstown.
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