As part of out 3rd Hall of Fame Class Philly Pressbox Radio is adding a new category, broadcasters. This first ballot is loaded with Philly broadcast legends. Bill Campbell, Gene Hart, Harry Kalas and Merrill Reese. You only get to pick one. Voting will last for 1 week. Attached is a link from our 8/10/16 show where Chet and Bill provide a thumbnail breakdown on each candidate. This review starts about the 30 minute mark. Enjoy!!!
Welcome to the 3rd annual Philly Pressbox Radio Roundtable Hall of Fame voting ballot.
As a review in 2014 we elected the following players. Chuck Bednarik, Steve VanBuren and Reggie White of the Eagles. Mike Schmidt, Steve Carlton and Robin Roberts of the Phillies. Bobby Clarke and Bernie Parent of the Flyers and Wilt Chamberlain and Julius “Dr J” Erving of the 76ers.
In 2015 we allowed the fans to select the top 3 by voting. Each fan could vote for 5 plauyers with the top 3 being inducted. Jim “Chet” Chesko and Bill Furman each selected one player. The fans selected Brian Dawkins, Richie Ashburn and Bill Barber while Chet selected Smokin Joe Frazier and Bill selected Pete Pihos.
We have added 5 new players to the ballot to combine with the 11 holdovers. Your job is to select 5 from the list. The ballot will close before next weeks show where we will announce our 5 new members.
So far the fans and the Philly Pressbox Radio staff have gotten it right. Lets see how 2016 goes.
In June of 2014 Jim “Chet” Chesko and Bill Furman along with the listeners of Philly Pressbox Radio selected the first ever Philly Pressbox Hall of Fame class. There were 21 Philadelphia athletes, all members of their respective Hall of Fame, that were put on the ballot, of that 10 were selected. They were Mike Schmidt, Steve Carlton, Robin Roberts of the Phillies, Wilt Chamberlain and Julius “Dr J” Erving of the 76ers, Bobby Clarke and Bernie Parent of the Flyers and Chuck Bednarik, Steve Van Buren and Reggie White of the Eagles.
The remaining 11 from that ballot were carried over to 2015 and we’ve added 5 more names to the list. Of the 16 on the 2015 ballot the fans will vote to pick 3, Chet will pick one and Bill will pick one for a total of 5 to complete the class. Each person can make a maximum of 5 picks since this list is so tough.
The voting will be open until Wednesday June 17 with the results announced during the Philly Pressbox Radio Roundtable show at 7pm Eastern time on June 17.
The nominees are as follows:
As a follow-up to the Philly Pressbox Radio Roundtable show which aired live on Wednesday May 28, 2014 we have established our voting poll below. You can listen to the show at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/phillypressboxradio and here Jim “Chet” Chesko and Bill Furman break down each of the 21 finalists. The finalists were selected based on the fact that they have already been inducted in to their respective Halls of Fame. Many others were consider, some led Philadelphia teams to championships, however, they didn’t make this cut due to not having the longevity in the city. Believe me selecting just 10 out of the 21 will be difficult enough. There are some others that may be inducted in to their Hall of Fame in the future but they to were left off at this time. We have 5 Phillies, Mike Schmidt, Steve Carlton, Robin Roberts, Richie Ashburn and Jim Bunning. There are 6 Eagles, Steve Van Buren, Chuck Bednarik, Pete Pihos, Tommy McDonald, Bob Brown and Reggie White. We have 4 Flyers, Bobby Clarke, Bernie Parent, Bill Barber, Mark Howe and 6- 76ers, Wilt Chamberlain, Hal Greer, Billy Cunningham, Chet Walker, Julius Erving and Charles Barkley.
Feel free to vote on our poll below and also feel free to leave comments by clicking the “reply” tab below.
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Join Joe Ferry, who along with Mark Carfagno, are leading a campaign to have Dick Allen inducted in to the Baseball Hall of Fame as they join Jim “Chet” Chesko and Bill Furman on the Philly Pressbox Radio Roundtable, brought to you by http://www.shopforkisses.org the on-line shopping network of the Kisses for Kyle Foundation, Wednesday May 21 at 7pm Eastern time. You can listen live, call in with your comments or listen later to the podcast by clicking the link below.
The Philly Pressbox Radio Roundtable brought to you by http://www.shopforkisses.org, talks the results of the Eagles draft and gets a full analysis from Trenton Times Eagles beat writer Mark Eckel. Get Marks take on the draft with some tough follow up questions from hosts Jim “Chet” Chesko and Bill Furman. We also unvail our first ever “Rapid Fire” session as Chet grills Mark with 10 questions in 2 minutes!!!
We also talk about the Phillies hitting and bullpen woes as well as the Flyers promotions of Paul Holmgren and Ron Hextall. You can listen to our show live Wednesday nights at 7pm or our podcasts through our Facebook pages Philly Pressbox and Philly Pressbox Radio or through the internet at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/phillypressboxradio.
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