Kubek elected to Hall of Fame
Posted by: Peter Abraham - Posted in Misc on Dec 09, 2008 
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This release from Cooperstown:
TONY KUBEK NAMED WINNER OF 2009 FORD C. FRICK BROADCASTING AWARD
The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum announced today that Tony Kubek, an analyst for the NBC “Game of the Week,” the Toronto Blue Jays and New York Yankees for 30 years, has been selected as the 2009 recipient of the Ford C. Frick Award, presented annually for major contributions to baseball broadcasting. Kubek will be honored with the award during Hall of Fame Induction Ceremonies on Sunday, July 26, 2009 in Cooperstown, N.Y.
Kubek is the first exclusive television analyst to win the Frick Award, which has been presented annually since 1978. Kubek also becomes the first primarily television broadcaster to be honored since Bob Wolff in 1995 and the first Frick Award winner to have called games for a Canadian team.
“For an entire generation of baseball fans, Tony Kubek was the face and the voice of the game,” said Hall of Fame president Jeff Idelson. “In the days before all-sports TV networks, Tony brought baseball into your living room every Saturday afternoon for almost three decades. His straightforward style, quick and detailed analysis and no-nonsense commentary on the game’s nuances gave viewers an insider’s look at what the players were experiencing on the field.”
Kubek joined the NBC broadcast booth in 1965 after retiring as a player that year. He served as an analyst on backup games from 1966-68, then was elevated to the primary broadcast in 1969. He worked with play-by-play partners Jim Simpson, Curt Gowdy (1984 Frick Award winner), Joe Garagiola (1991 Frick Award winner) and Bob Costas through 1989, then concluded his career with the Yankees and the MSG Network from 1990-94. He also worked on local television broadcasts for The Sports Network and CTV for the Blue Jays from 1977-89, introducing one of North America’s largest cities to the game of baseball.
Kubek broadcast 11 World Series and 14 American League Championship Series for NBC as well as 10 All-Star Games. Kubek also called the final NBC Game of the Week on Sept. 30, 1989, and that fall’s American League Championship Series, which ended a 43-relationship between the network and Major League Baseball.
Kubek was a four-time All-Star shortstop during a nine-year big league career with the Yankees from 1957-65. He earned the American League Rookie of the Year Award in 1957 and appeared in six World Series, helping the Yankees win three championships. Kubek generously donated his Rookie of the Year Award to the Hall of Fame several years ago.
Kubek will be honored as an award recipient during Hall of Fame Weekend 2009, July 24-27 in Cooperstown, N.Y, along with the 2009 J.G. Taylor Spink Award winner. The Spink Award, which honors excellence in baseball writing, will be announced Wednesday, Dec. 10. Veterans Committee electee Joe Gordon will be inducted during the July 26 ceremony along with any electees to emerge from 2009 Baseball Writers’ Association of America election, to be announced Jan. 12.
ESPN2 just said they spoke to a Yankee official and the report is not true.
Just heard that too, hopefully its true
If CC denied the Yanks they need to go public so CC makes less money. No point in getting more money for this bum than he deserves. Go public on CC turn-down and then go full throttle for Tex.
Who knows what the truth really is…90% of these rumors that CC doesn’t want to be a Yank can be coming from CC’s agent. Just like the rumor 2 weeks ago that the Angels were finished with Tex and going after CC..that was wrong. Giants and Dodgers making offers those were wrong. This report. CC’s agent has been quite but maybe he has been sending out these reports quitely. It would make sense to try and get the WC teams interested.
I just saw this post on MLBTRADERUMORS.COM it looks like Sabathia will be a Giant. Thank God. Thosew two deserve eachother. Lets get TEX.
C.C. Sabathia Rumors: Tuesday
By Tim Dierkes [December 9 at 4:09pm CST]
4:09pm: Baggarly talked to an exec close to the Sabathia talks who believes the Brewers are emerging as the frontrunner.
3:39pm: Joel Sherman doesn’t say anything about the Yanks’ offer being declined, but he does say the Yanks have heightened interest in A.J. Burnett and Derek Lowe as Brian Cashman continues to wait on C.C.
3:24pm: Unconfirmed rumor from Andrew Baggarly: Sabathia declined the Yankees’ offer. He still printed it though. The Giants are expected to meet with Sabathia this weekend; they’d need to get creative to sign him.
2:21pm: Dan Graziano says Sabathia is convinced the Giants will become a serious bidder.
1:45pm: Tony Jackson’s heard word that Giants officials are “supremely confident” they’re going to sign Sabathia.
1:34pm: Sabathia apparently spent a lot of his time with the Yankees peppering them with lifestyle questions about New York, says Yahoo’s Jeff Passan.
12:11pm: According to Ken Rosenthal, the Giants intend to meet with C.C. Sabathia, perhaps in San Francisco this weekend. They weren’t able to get together while Sabathia was in Vegas.
Now Baggarly says Brewers are the front runner? That would be an even worse decision on CC’s part but who knows how much of what this guy says is true. he’s certainly had a lot of unconfirmed rumors today.
if CC has in fact decided he doesn’t want to play in NY no matter what the offer, it would be in both his and the Yankees best interest to keep it quiet. CC obviously gets higher offers from other teams if the Yankees are still in the hunt. The Yankees avoid being squeezed by AJ, Lowe, Sheets because they know the Yankees lost out on CC and are getting desperate for pitching.
But it’s a big risk to assume you can keep news like this quiet, so I doubt either side would have some handshake agreement to keep it to themselves, and therefore seems highly unlikely CC would turn down the offer until he had a contract in his hand from someone else that he wanted to sign.
If CC gets what he wants from the Giants, more power to him. He’s a great talent but in the end,the Yanks could be better off if the end up with Tex and either Lowe or Burnett.Onlt time will tell.
“Baggarly talked to an exec close to the Sabathia talks who believes the Brewers are emerging as the frontrunner.”
Wow. What a surprise. CC has two offers and none from the West coast.
And it just so happens that the team that his bid $40M less is “emerging” as the front runner even though it’s nowhere close to the West Coast.
So the Brewer’s don’t have geography working for them and aren’t even remotely close in turns of money.
But they are the “frontrunner.” That makes sense.
This was just expected. CC has leverage but without a driving reason he can’t make the Yankee’s up their offer. The only other offer he’s gotten was from the brewers so no either his people are leaking this to try to pressure the yanks or some other organization is leaking this to try to make the yankees spend as much as possible.
And of course the reporter from the San Jose is going to have the best sense of the Brewers emerging as front runners rather than say… one of the Milwaukee beat reporters like Haudricort.
More nonsense. Move on.
NFL announced it is cutting 10 per cent of its workforce. Whoever says that the country’s economic issues are not effecting sports really doesn’t have a clue
“This report. CC’s agent has been quite but maybe he has been sending out these reports quitely.”
Bobcat is that you? They only say what they want you to hear.
Newsday reporting that the Brewers won’t raise their offer…
http://www.newsday.com/sports/.....5140.story
Ofcourse this rumor comes out at the same time that rotoworld is says that the Giants could be a landing spot for Lowell. So they can get Tex. Seems like Giants and/or Boston BS…
Congrats to Tony Kubek. He was a terrific announcer. The Saturday afternoon telecasts have gone downhill since NBC gave them up. Kubek was always informative and was a nice counterpoint to Joe Garagiola.
I wonder if the Yanks could maybe swing Teix, Lowe and Sheets? I’ve not been a Lowe supporter in the past but that would solve it all in terms of durable innings eater, guy with ace stuff, and dangerous no. 3 hitter.
Of course, in that case, still a good deal would have to fall right with Lowe and Sheets. It would mean we’d get to improve the offense greatly, and that’s a plus, but we all know we cant do it w/o the pitching working out.
At the very least though, this staff is sure to have more depth than last year’s.
“Newsday reporting that the Brewers won’t raise their offer…”
Of course. This is why they’ve now emerged as the front runners.
CC is a man of integrity and respects the Brewers taking a stand.
That’s now compelled him to reject the yankee’s offer that is at least $40M more.
The Brewers have the yankees exactly where they want them now.
Nobody is emerging as a frontrunner. This isn’t the election with pollsters calling random people and asking them will it be McCain or Obama.
CC will sign with someone eventually and when he does that person will be the frontrunner and winner of CC’s services.
If CC wasn’t interested in making the most money he can make he wouldn’t have gone to free agency. He just would have signed an extension with Cleveland and they never would have had to trade him.
There’s a reason why a player decides to go to free agency and usually the reason is plain and simply M.O.N.E.Y.
I don’t believe all of these unconfirmed rumors for a millisecond.
Ken Rosenthal is reporting that there is NO TRUTH to the rumor that CC turned down the yankees:
“There is no truth to reports that CC Sabathia turned down the Yankees, according to two sources with knowledge of the discussions.
It would make little sense for Sabathia to eliminate his highest bidder. It would also make little sense for the Yankees to pull out of the discussions when Sabathia is their principal free-agent target.
The Yankees remain in the mix for Sabathia, along with the Angels, Giants, Red Sox and possibly the Dodgers.”
http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/s.....r-meetings
Bottom line:
The only teams to offer CC anything are Yanks & Brewers…
The rest is just rumors on the internets…
Sabathia turned down yankees offer. http://blogs.mercurynews.com/e.....to-be-out/
“Newsday reporting that the Brewers won’t raise their offer…”
There is no reason to right now…A WC team hasn’t passed them…
If CC wasn’t interested in making the most money he can make he wouldn’t have gone to free agency. He just would have signed an extension with Cleveland and they never would have had to trade him.
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Smartest thing written on this blog all winter.
Relax people. Let the thing play out. We’re just spectators in multimillion dollar games of chiken here.
its just a rumor!!! that person was terribly bored!!!
Actually now that I’m thinking about it maybe Nate Silver can start http://www.wherewillsabathiasign.com and check out Cashman’s ground game in Vegas.
http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/s.....r-meetings
CHYYEEEEEEAAAAAHHHH
“Whoever says that the country’s economic issues are not effecting sports really doesn’t have a clue.”
Very true. Pro sports rely heavily on 2 things for their revenue as far as I can tell, 1). Advertising dollars and 2). fans like us spending spending dollars upon dollars on going to games, buying t-shirts and hats, etc.
Plenty of major companies are hurting, probably cutting back AD costs. And, as die hard as some of us may be, sporting events, t-shirts, etc.. are luxury items, not necessities. So, if people are hurting, of course there’s going to be lost revenues to pro teams and leagues…. How bad, who knows, but there is absolutely an effect.
“This report. CC’s agent has been quite but maybe he has been sending out these reports quitely.”
Bobcat is that you? They only say what they want you to hear.
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Its not him… Bobcat knew how to spell “quietly”.
(to nobody’s surprise) CB said it best.
“The only other offer he’s gotten was from the brewers so no(w) either his people are leaking this to try to pressure the yanks or some other organization is leaking this to try to make the yankees spend as much as possible.”
So it turns out that Baggardly’s executive is just the owner of the bar he frequents!
Angels out of the bidding for Tex because they fear the nationals will be highest bidder? There sure is a lot of BS swirling today.
lol, what would a Hot Stove be without completely ludicrous rumors.
Say CC already has/gets ‘enuf money’ to buy whatver he personally wants to.
Say he signs with a lesser team for lesser money, say – $30,000,000.00 less.
…….If he is this ‘great guy’ – can you imagine how much of a “really great guy” he could become by helping so many people and so many worthwhile projects in whatever community(s) he chooses !!!
Or – he can deny those people and projects his sincere concern and sign with whatever WC team and be the ‘kinda good guy’ that really could’ve been a “great good guy” to alot of commumities !!!
By leaving the “extra’ money on the table; however strangely;…it certainly makes him appear selfish !!!
Yup – selfish by taking less money.
Strange, but true.
From Ken Davidoff on that CC rumor reported by baggerly:
“Sabathia didn’t reject the Yankees’ offer. Good Lord. How could someone report that?”
http://blogs.trb.com/sports/baseball/blog/
Wonder if Kubek will show for the ceremony?
He has not watched asingle inning or highlight in baseball since the end of the 1994 season.
He has never seen Derek Jeter play.
He hasn’t even watched highlights of games.
There was a fascinating story on him last year on how down he is on the game.
Now, he gets in the Hall.
Will be interesting to see what he does.
Wild idea of the day:
Yanks should look at Pedro Martinez.
Why? He is likely going to be very cheap with little guaranteed money. The Yankees will practically need a rotation of 6-7 starters especially if it includes Sheets and Joba. At the very least, he could serve as a second pitching coach for the the young guys. And finally, wouldn’t it be fitting for him to end his career on the team that is “his daddy” and if the Yanks take it all in 09′ it would be a minor punch in the gut to the Sox if he were a part of it.
Wild idea of the day:
Yanks should look at Pedro Martinez.
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Jorge would probably kill him and then have Jeter help him in getting rid of the body. Then the Yankees will have to deal with the police, a murder trial, Court TV. All sorts of nonsense.
So basically no Pedro
Gayle mentioned earlier that F.Rodriguez might have a vesting option on a 4th year. He does. 3 years at 37 mil and the option for 14 mil. total is 51 mil over four years.
It can’t be a west coast issue with Sabathia if Milwaukee is still in his sights. Just half the distance.
Who’s he kidding ?
“Then the Yankees will have to deal with the police, a murder trial, Court TV. All sorts of nonsense.”
That, and there’s also the fact that Pedro sucks now and can’t stay healthy………..
All I care about re: k-rod is that he got a lower annual salary than Mo. Don’t care about his extra year, he’s younger. But he got over 2.5M per year less. Good.
“So basically no Pedro”
Unless he agrees to head hunt Youk the baby in Boston.
per MLBtrade rumors, Gammons says CC has offers from NYY, Brewers, Angels, Red Sox, and the Giants will submit an offer “under certain circumstances.”
Kerry Wood close to Cleveland for at least 2 years. Mark Derosa of the Cubs would go to the Phillies as part of the 3 team deal for Peavey.
“Then the Yankees will have to deal with the police, a murder trial, Court TV. All sorts of nonsense.”
That, and there’s also the fact that Pedro sucks now and can’t stay healthy………..
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LOL
There is that little fact too
“That, and there’s also the fact that Pedro sucks now and can’t stay healthy………..”
well, I’m curious how cheap he would be. If he only had to make 10-15 starts over the course of an entire season he may be much more effective. He’s also not going to get much guaranteed $.
I think the Yankees could use some starting pitching depth. It’s definitely a little far-fetched but either he or someone else like Pedro should be on the Yanks radar. It would be wise to plan for a couple SP injuries this time around.
“All I care about re: k-rod is that he got a lower annual salary than Mo.”
He got less guaranteed money than Chad Cordero signed for last winter to close.
Higher AAV but less guaranteed. Don’t think many people would have thought that would happen when K-Rod was demanding 5/75 and thinking he’d be somewhere in that neighborhood.
Joe Torre was just on NESN talking about the liklihood of Andy Pettitte possibly signing with the Red Sox. That’s been the big rumor here in New England today.
Torre said he just can’t imagine Andy ever crossing that line. He mentioned Mike Torez,but Torez wasnt homegrown into the rivalry like Andy was.Torre even mentioned that Don Mattingly was hoping that his son wasnt going to get drafted by Boston when the time came. lol
Boston Dave, I hear you about the depth, but I don’t think Pedro is the answer. The answer for pitching depth is the young guys, Hughes, Aceves, etc. Not an old, oft-injured has been that Posada quite probably would consume for lunch.
CB, even better…
“per MLBtrade rumors, Gammons says CC has offers from NYY, Brewers, Angels, Red Sox, and the Giants will submit an offer “under certain circumstances.””
Typical Gammons. The Sox were only doing their typical troll duties by meeting CC. Brewers and Yanks are the only 2 teams somehow I can’t see him leaving 40 million on the table to pitch in Wisconsin.