The National Baseball Hall of Fame has announced Tom Cheek its 2013 recipient of the Ford C. Frick award, presented annually for excellence in broadcasting.

Cheek called the first 4,306 regular-season and 41 postseason games in Toronto Blue Jays history and helped ignite a love affair between a Canadian city and America’s national pastime.

Cheek, who passed away in 2005, will be honored as part of Hall of Fame weekend July 26-29 in Cooperstown. Cheek becomes the second Frick award winner whose career came primarily with a Canadian team. The other in 2011 winner Dave van Horne, who spent parts of four decades broadcasting Montreal Expos games.

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