The award is given annually for a lifetime of contributions to baseball broadcasting and admits Miller into the broadcasting wing of baseball’s Hall of Fame.
Miller began his baseball broadcasting career with a one-year stint with the Oakland A’s in 1974. He was also a broadcaster for the Texas Rangers, Boston Red Sox and Baltimore Orioles before taking on the duties as the Giants’ announcer in 1997.
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Miller will receive the honor during the Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony on July 25 in Cooperstown, N.Y.
The award was established in 1978. Miller joins former Giant announcers, and boyhood idols, Russ Hodges and Lon Simmons as award winners. Chuck Thompson, a former colleague when Miller worked in Baltimore, received the award in 1993.
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