Longtime M's announcer Niehaus going into Hall of Fame

Seattle Times staff
Feb 19 12:04 pm
                                                          
Mariners broadcaster Dave Niehaus will be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame this summer.

Niehaus, a Mariners broadcaster since their first season in 1977, won the Ford C. Frick Award for contributions to broadcasting today, (on his 73rd birthday) and will enter the broadcasters wing of the Hall in Cooperstown, N.Y.

Niehaus was inducted into the Mariners' Hall of Fame in 2000.

The induction ceremony will be during Hall of Fame Weekend July 25-28 in Cooperstown.

"I have had the pleasure of listening to Dave since I arrived in Seattle in 1983," Mariners president Chuck Armstrong said in a statement from the team. "More importantly, it has been my good fortune to become good friends with Dave. There is no announcer more deserving of this honor than Dave. His integrity and love of the game is unquestioned. It's terrific that the rest of the country will now know what we have known in the Northwest for a long time: Dave has been a Hall of Famer his whole career."

During his 31 seasons with the Mariners, Niehaus has called 4,817 of their 4,899 games.

****DAVE WILL GUEST ON THE MARINERS' HOT STOVE LEAGUE TUES. FEB 19TH AT 7PM ON KOMO 1000 Radio****