HOF broadcaster Dave Niehaus is gone at 75

[Missy Vixen]

There are tears in baseball tonight in Seattle.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/mariners/2013399999_niehaus11.html

Rest in peace, Mr. Niehaus. You were the greatest, and you will never be forgotten.

[Mojambo]

1. This one hurts.

For Dave Niehaus...


Listen to the jingle the rumble and the roar as she glides along the woodland
ore the hills and by the shore
hear the rush of the mighty engine hear the lonesome hobos call
he's riding through the jungle on the Wabash cannon ball


now the western states are dandies so the southern people say from Chicago
and St. Louis
and Peoria by the way
to the lake of Minnesota where the rippling waters flow no chances to be
taken on
the Wabash cannon ball


she pulled in to the station one cold December day
as she rolled up to the platform you could hear all the people say
now theirs a gal from Birmingham she's Elong and she's tall she came down
from Georgia
on the Wabash cannon ball


now heres to daddy claxton may his name forever stand
and always be remembered in the courts of all the land
his earthly race is over and as the curtain falls
we'll carry him back to Dixie on the Wabash cannon ball
Wabash Cannonball

Rest In Peace, Dave...

[pokerfan]

2. I just heard

Here he is calling Adrian Beltre hitting for the cycle:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZcNQ5gy1ZE

Somewhere he's enjoying some rye bread and salami with mustard,

[Missy Vixen]

3. I like to think he's enchanting the angels

Dave Niehaus was no saint. When he wasn't happy about something, he said so. At the same time, there is no other figure in the Seattle sports world more beloved. He made a blowout loss sound interesting and exciting. He made me fall in love with baseball.

As the poster above noted, this one hurts.

:cry:

-MV

p.s. We were in a local bar the night Safeco Field opened, watching the coverage on TV. I was hoping against hope they would ask Dave Niehaus to throw out the first ball. He was the only person I could imagine doing so. After all, there was nobody else that deserved the honor, at least to us. I waited and waited. We saw Dave walk out onto the field in his tuxedo. He said later that he was told he'd introduce the person who would throw out the first ball.

He cried like a baby when they put the ball in his hand, and an entire barful of customers cried, too.

My biggest regret is that the Mariners never quite got it together enough for us to hear him call them winning the World Series.

[travelingtypist]

4. R.I.P., sir.

I'm going to miss you terribly.

:cry: