Duane Kuiper, Mike Krukow come up short for induction into Baseball Hall of Fame
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On the ballot again, Duane Kuiper and Mike Krukow were not chosen to be inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame, it was announced on Wednesday.
Kuiper, 73, and Krukow, 71, were two of 10 finalists for the Ford C. Frick Award, presented annually to one broadcaster who is voted into the Hall of Fame by the 15-member Frick Award committee.
The committee, made up of 12 living recipients and three broadcast historians/columnists, selected longtime Red Sox radio broadcaster Joe Castiglione as this year’s winner, to be inducted in Cooperstown next July.
The pair of San Francisco Giants broadcasters who first called a game together in 1990, Kruk and Kuip narrowly missed the award for their second and third time, respectively. Krukow was a finalist in 2017 and Kuiper was a finalist in 2014 and 2022.
Longtime A’s broadcaster Ken Korach was also a finalist this year for the first time.
The 10 finalists were: Krukow, Kuiper, Korach, Joe Buck, Gary Cohen, Jacques Doucet, Tom Hamilton, Ernie Johnson Sr., Dan Shulman and Castiglione.
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