Dick Enberg set to receive Frick Award - The San Diego Union-Tribune
Color analyst or not, Mark Grant knew his place well before he and Dick Enberg worked out the logistics of their yin-and-yang rapport when the Padres dropped the broadcasting legend into their booth six years ago. The latest stop is the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York, where the 80-year-old Enberg will be honored Saturday as this year’s recipient of the Ford C. Frick Award for broadcasting excellence. He is one of two individuals to earn entry into each of the baseball, football (Rozelle Award) and basketball (Gowdy Award) halls of fame, capping a 49-year broadcasting career that includes calling 42 years in the NFL, 28 Wimbledons, 15 NCAA... “Tom Seaver just walked into my room with a proclamation from Mayor Faulconer saying Saturday is Dick Enberg Day in San Diego. Just nobody like Enberg, who also has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, the fourth sportscaster to earn one and the only person to win National Emmy awards as a sportscaster, a writer and a producer. Baseball, of course, is where it started for Enberg, who began calling games full time in 1965 in Los Angeles as the radio and television voice of the California Angels, UCLA basketball and the Los Angeles Rams. He has spent the last six years as the play-by-play man at Petco Park, a short drive from his La Jolla home. Source: www.sandiegouniontribune.com
