Column: Forget Frick. Time to put Vin Scully's name on this award
Scully was the soundtrack of summer in Southern California. And, as Edward James Olmos observed at Jarrín’s retirement ceremony last week, Jarrín’s dignity — and, later,
“I think the consensus right now is that they should change the name of the Ford Frick award to his name. I am 100% in favor of that.”The Frick Award is named for Ford Frick, the third commissioner of Major League Baseball, and the man generally credited with coming up with the idea of the Hall of Fame.. He spent more time as a newspaper reporter than a broadcaster. He served MLB for 32 years, first as National League president, then as commissioner.
That sentiment has made its way to Cooperstown. Josh Rawitch, the president of the Hall of Fame, does not need to be persuaded about Scully’s greatness. Rawitch, who grew up in Southern California, covered the Dodgers as a beat writer and later promoted them as a team publicist. Rawitch would not decide whether to rename the award. That would be up to the Hall’s board of directors.
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