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Fans of former radio announcer Joe Nuxhall will get another chance beginning Monday, Sept. 1, to make the late Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame pitcher a finalist for the 2009 Ford C. Frick Award.

The winner will be recognized in the broadcaster's wing of the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y.

"I think his best shot at it was last year," said son Kim Nuxhall. "I know (Butler County Commissioner) Greg Jolivette was determined to keep it rolling."

The commissioner led the charge last year to push fans to vote for the Ol' Lefthander to be a finalist, hoping that public support would convince the voting electorate to give him the nod.

Fans can vote once a day in September for Nuxhall or one of the other 209 broadcasters eligible for the Frick award. The top three vote-getters will be finalists with seven other broadcasters, who are chosen by the Hall of Fame research team.

Results of the online voting will be announced after September, and the 10 finalists will be announced Oct. 6. The winner will be named Dec. 9.

Last year, Nuxhall garnered more than 82,300 online votes placing him on the 2008 finalist list of 10 broadcasters to be voted on by a 20-member electorate, which includes past winners and five veteran historians and veteran media members. He also was a finalist in 2007 and 2004.

"He deserves to be in the Hall," Jolivette said. "He's just as important as a play-by-play announcer to us, allowing us enjoy the game."

Nuxhall died at Mercy Hospital Fairfield on Nov. 15 at 79. He was recovering from his fourth bout of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.

"He was just always very touched that he was even one of the finalists. That really did touch him deeply," Kim Nuxhall said. "That would have been over the top.

Other notables on the list of 210 broadcasters are former Reds and Hall of Fame player Joe Morgan and Thom Brennaman, son of Nuxhall's long-time broadcaster partner and 2000 Frick award winner Marty Brennaman.