Dave 'My, Oh, My' Niehaus

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!!!

1950 - Pacific Ave - Tacoma, WA

note: Perhaps my memory is going, but I thought the RUST Building was on Pacific.

Amazing PACIFIC NORTHWEST!!

This is a view of the Columbia River and Washington State on the far bank.

The dome shape building is called 'Crown Point Vista House'.

How to get there: Vista House is on the historic Columbia River Highway, and is a relatively short drive from Portland International Airport (PDX).

However, I think it's best if you can allow enough time( a day??)to see both sides of the Gorge.

http://www.vistahouse.com/

blog'52 - It was back to the Pacific Northwest

After several years in Brazil, we returned to Tacoma, and of course would use this opportunity to visit with my Grandparents.

By this time I was truly bilingual, and would switch between English and Portuguese with ease, often in mid-sentence. I would speak to my family in English, but for some goofy-four-year-old-kid reasoning, I would speak to my Grandma ONLY in Portuguese, and it drove her CRAZY!!

She would scold my folks, "Oh you took little Jonnie away, and now look!!"

Apparently I would laugh with delight when this happened, and my dumb trick ended as soon as they figured out what I was doing and stopped reacting/over-reacting.

Over the next few years before I lost my second language, I would make my Grandma laugh by answering her in Portuguese.

I was extraordinarily blessed to have had such a wonderful Grandma!!