COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. -- John Rooney of the St. Louis Cardinals and Brian Anderson of the Milwaukee Brewers are newcomers to the ballot for the Hall of Fame's 2026 Ford C. Frick Award for excellence in baseball broadcasting.

Skip Caray, Rene Cardenas, Gary Cohen, Jacques Doucet, Duane Kuiper and John Sterling return from last year's ballot, when Tom Hamilton was elected to receive the 2025 award.

Joe Buck is back after being dropped last year, and Dan Shulman is on for the third time in four years.

Cohen and Doucet have appeared on four straight ballots, and Kuiper also was on the ballot for the 2023 award.

This is the fourth of four consecutive elections that will consider broadcasters whose careers extend into the wild card era, which began in 1995. The pre-wild card era will be cons

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