Tony Kubek is a retired American professional baseball player and television broadcaster. During his nine-year playing career with the New York Yankees, Kubek played in six World Series in the late 1950s and early 1960s, starting in 37 World Series games. He won the Al Rookie of the Year Award in 1957. For NBC television, he later broadcast eleven World Series between 1969 and 1982, and fourteen League Championship Series between 1969 and 1989. On December 9, 2008, Tony Kubek won the 2009 Ford C. Frick Award, an honor bestowed on broadcasters by the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Tony Kubek has hand signed this MLB ball and has added the inscription, "Ford Frick Award Hall of Fame 2009." An MAB Celebrity Services certificate of authenticity is included.