"Hammy" has been the voice of Cleveland baseball for 35 years and along the way became a beloved member of the Northeast Ohio community.

Tom Hamilton, who has called Cleveland games on the radio for 35 seasons, won the Hall of Fame’s Ford C. Frick Award for excellence in broadcasting on Wednesday. Hamilton, 70, joined the team's broadcast in 1990,

Tom Hamilton is the legendary voice behind so many hall of fame-worthy calls in the last 35 years of Cleveland baseball that it is impossible to imagine a Guardians game without the 70-year-old Wisconsin native behind the mic.