Today, on his 73rd birthday, Longtime Mariners play-by-play announcer Dave Niehaus won the Ford C. Frick award. Every year, the Baseball Hall of Fame gives the award to a broadcaster for “major contributions to baseball.” The award comes with an automatic induction into the broadcasters’ wing at Cooperstown.

Having grown up listening to Niehaus and narrated innumerable childhood wiffle ball home runs with some version of his “swung on and belted deep to left field…this one will fly away…my oh my!” call, I feel the Hall couldn’t have selected a more deserving candidate.

Now all that remains is for his finest color commentator to join him in baseball immortality. Ronald Ray Fairly, you’re up.

“The wind at Candlestick tonight is blowing with great propensity.”

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