DALLAS — Tim McCarver found it a bit hard to offer any analysis after this honor.

McCarver, an All-Star catcher who discovered a second career as a folksy announcer known for explaining the game in exacting detail, won the Hall of Fame’s Ford C. Frick Award for broadcasting excellence yesterday.

“I don’t know about talking about my legacy,” he said on a conference call. “I feel a little strange about that.”

He did point to two elements for success for any baseball announcer — “being right” and “staying contemporary.”

The 70-year-old McCarver has worked for Fox since 1996, and has been an analyst on national television networks for three decades. He also was with NBC, ABC and CBS, and has won six Emmy Awards.

McCarver previously was part of the broadcast crews for the Phillies, Mets, and Yankees. He became the second person to win the Frick Award primarily as an analyst, joining Tony Kubek in 2009.