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M's broadcaster Niehaus honored by Hall
By Associated Press
Feb 19, 2008 - 10:08:13 PM

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SEATTLE - Longtime Seattle Mariners broadcaster Dave Niehaus is going into the Baseball Hall of Fame. Niehaus has been chosen as the 2008 winner of the Ford C. Frick Award for broadcast excellence.

This is a May 1, 1999 file photo of longtime Seattle Mariners broadcaster Dave Niehaus in his booth at the Kingdome before a Mariners game. Niehaus has been chosen as the 2008 winner of the Ford C. Frick Award for broadcast excellence. He will be honored during the Hall of Fame induction ceremony July 27 at Cooperstown, N.Y. The announcement Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2008 comes on Niehaus' 73rd birthday. (AP Photo/Joe Brockert)


He will be honored during the Hall of Fame induction ceremony July 27 at Cooperstown, N.Y. The announcement Tuesday comes on Niehaus' 73rd birthday.

Niehaus worked with the California Angels from 1969-1976 and joined the expansion Mariners in 1977. He was inducted in 2000 in the Mariners' Hall of Fame and is known for his expression "My, oh my" for big plays.


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