page_title: Graham McNamee
section_title: Awards
hierarchical_section_title: Graham McNamee / Awards
caption_attribution_description: English: Hollywood Walk of Fame, Los Angeles, California, USA Español: Hollywood Walk of Fame, Los Ángeles, California, Estados Unidos
context_page_description: Graham McNamee was an American radio broadcaster, the medium's most recognized national personality in its first international decade. He originated play-by-play sports broadcasting for which he was awarded the Ford C. Frick Award by the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2016.
context_section_description: In 1925, at the Radio World Fair, he won a solid gold cup (designed like a microphone) as America's most popular announcer, receiving 189,470 votes out of 1,161,659 votes cast.
  In February 1960, McNamee was posthumously recognized with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
  In 1964, McNamee was inducted into the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association Hall of Fame. In 1984, he was part of the American Sportscasters Association Hall of Fame's inaugural class, which included sportscasting legends Red Barber, Don Dunphy, Ted Husing and  Bill Stern.
  The National Radio Hall of Fame inducted McNamee in 2011.
  On December 9, 2015, McNamee was named the 2016 recipient of the Ford C. Frick Award by the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, presented during the Hall's induction weekend in July.
caption: McNamee's star (lower left) on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
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