ESPN’s Spanish-language baseball voice, Dominican Ernesto Jerez is nominated for a Ford Frick Award, the ticket to be inducted to the Cooperstown Hall of Fame. He has worked ESPN Deportes’ “Sunday Night Baseball” for more than 25 years. He has narrated the World Series, All-Star Game and the World Baseball Classic.
Jerez is one of eight candidates. The winner of the Ford Frick Award will be announced on 9 December. The induction ceremony will be on 24 July 2021.
“I am very honored and still on the air,” 52-year old Jerez told ESPN Digital. “I am very happy, for me, for my city, Santiago, my country, Dominican Republic, and for all the people who are in this race,” he added. “To appear on that list is already a triumph and a blessing. I feel very humbled today,” Jerez said.
Jerez is best known for his signature home run call “Go deepoooooooo! No, no, no, say no to that ball! He is already an Emmy-award winning broadcast journalist. He is the play-by-play commentator for ESPN’s Spanish version of MLB and Sunday night baseball telecasts since 1995.
Jerez is a business graduate of the Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra (PUCMM) in Santiago, Dominican Republic, in 1991. In 1995, he graduated from the Northeast Broadcast School, currently the Massachusetts School of Communications, in Boston.
Jerez has called hundreds of games for ESPN, including every Major League Baseball All-Star Game since 1997, every World Series since 1998 and ESPN Deportes’ coverage of World Baseball Classic in 2006, 2009 and the upcoming tournament in March 2013.
He is also the voice for the network’s telecast of winter baseball, the Caribbean Series and hosts the winter edition of the weekly baseball program Béisbol Esta Noche (Baseball Tonight).
According to the Hall of Fame’s board of directors, the main criteria for receiving the Ford Frick are: “Commitment to excellence, quality of broadcasting abilities, reverence within the game, popularity with fans, and recognition by peers.”
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3 November 2020