Niehaus died of a heart attack at his Bellevue, WA home on November 10, 2010 at the age of 75.
Dave Niehaus was an American sportscaster. He was the lead play-by-play announcer for the American League's Seattle Mariners from their inaugural season in 1977 until his death in 2010. He was awarded in 2008 the Ford C. Frick Award by the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame.
The Frick award is the highest honor for American baseball broadcasters. Among Pacific Northwest fans and his peers, Dave Niehaus is considered one of the finest sportscasters in history.
Dave Niehaus was an American sportscaster. He was the lead play-by-play announcer for the American League's Seattle Mariners from their inaugural season in 1977 until his death in 2010. He was awarded in 2008 the Ford C. Frick Award by the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame.
The Frick award is the highest honor for American baseball broadcasters. Among Pacific Northwest fans and his peers, Dave Niehaus is considered one of the finest sportscasters in history.
In 1977, Danny Kaye, part-owner of the expansion Seattle Mariners, recruited Niehaus to become the franchise's radio voice. As of the end of the 2007 season, Niehaus had called 4,817 of the 4,899 games the Mariners had played since their inception.[1] Heart problems forced Niehaus to undergo two angioplasties in 1996, causing him to give up smoking and change his diet.
Despite working for a franchise who from its first year in 1977 until 1991 was without a winning season, his talent was recognizable, and Niehaus was considered one of the few attractions for Mariner fans. Even in the period before the team's memorable 1995 season, the Mariners were regularly one of the leading major-league teams in terms of the percentage of radios in use.
Dave Niehaus has become immensely popular in Seattle, twice being named Washington Sportscaster of the Year. The team chose him to throw out the ceremonial first pitch at the opening of its new ballpark, Safeco Field, on July 15, 1999. In 2000, he was the second figure to be inducted into the Mariners Hall of Fame. In 2008, Dave Niehaus was named the winner of the Ford C. Frick Award, which recognizes career excellence in baseball broadcasting and is considered the highest baseball broadcasting honor.[wikipedia.org]
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