The 'Voice of the Seattle Mariners', Dave Niehaus, on 19-Feb-08, was awarded the 'Ford C. Frick award for baseball broadcast excellence'.
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I'm glad to see MLB has finally got something right, because he will be inducted into the broadcaster's wing of the HOF in Cooperstown on April 27.
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Steve Kelley, the brilliant sportswriter for the Seattle Times 'called it' right when he wrote:
"Rarely does an entire region get to share something this profound. But this is an award all of us who have lived in the Northwest and listened to Dave can share with Niehaus.
For Mariners fans, for baseball fans, Niehaus had been our brother, our dad, our favorite uncle, our grandfather. He has been family.
His voice has wafted through summer breezes at picnics and playgrounds. It has bounced down sterile hospital halls and echoed from transistor radios since the Mariners' first game against the Angels in 1977."
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On April 27, "Get out the rye bread and mustard, Grandma! It's grand salami time!"
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Stats:
- His FIRST Mariner game call – April 6, 1977, which just happen to be, the M's very first pre-season game.
- Games: 4,816 out of 4,899
- B.A.: .983
- L.O.B.: 0
- His NEXT Mariner Game Call: Charity Game, 28-Feb, SD
GO, M's!!!
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