The Mel Allen Media Award was created to honor media members in the State of Alabama who have made a lifetime contribution to sports through their work as a media member. The award is named after the 1974 ASHOF Inductee Mel Allen, of Birmingham, who was known as the “Voice of the New York Yankees” for two decades; as well as narrated a weekly thirty-minute television show in the 1960s and 1970s called “This Week in Major League Baseball.”
Buddy Davidson
2025
Randy Kennedy
2024
Rick Karle
2023
Mark McCarter
2022
Rubin Grant
2021
Paul Finebaum
2020
Cecil Hurt
2019
Ron Ingram
2017
Tom Roberts
2015
John Pruett
2014
George Smith
2014
