From Diego Segui's first pitch on April 6, 1977, through the end of the 2010 season, Niehaus called 5,284 of the Mariners' 5,385 games. He was the instructor for a region void of the major league game sans the Seattle Pilots' one-year experiment in 1969. Adults and kids regularly tuned in on summer evenings to hear Niehaus try to put his best spin on what were among the worst teams in baseball during much of the club's history.
But no matter how bad the Mariners were, Niehaus never let the on-field product affect his approach to the game. He always brought enthusiasm and drama to some horrible teams, horrible games and horrible seasons.


"This is the saddest day of my life. It is like I am losing a dad, someone that was a father figure to me," former Mariners outfielder Jay Buhner said. "He was the voice of Northwest baseball and the heart of the Mariners organization. He described everything with an art and painted a picture you could see in your mind."
At Safeco Field on Wednesday night, an image of Niehaus, who threw out the first pitch in the stadium's history when it opened during the middle of the 1999 season, was shown on the video board in center field. Twitter and Facebook were full of tributes to the broadcaster.
"This is a day that I was hoping would never come," former Seattle star Ken Griffey Jr. told the Mariners' flagship radio station Wednesday night. "It's just a sad day for all of us, not just his family, but for everybody in the great Northwest."


Niehaus was the recipient of the 2008 Ford C. Frick Award and was inducted into the broadcasters' wing of the Baseball Hall of Fame. He is the lone Mariners representative in Cooperstown.
"Dave has truly been the heart and soul of this franchise since its inception in 1977," Mariners CEO Howard Lincoln and team president Chuck Armstrong said in a statement Wednesday night.
Niehaus got into broadcasting as a student at Indiana. He worked for the Armed Forces Network in Los Angeles and New York before anchoring himself in the L.A. market in the late 1960s and early '70s, calling games for the California Angels and UCLA football. In 1976 at the baseball winter meetings, Niehaus was encouraged to interview for the lead play-by-play job with the expansion Mariners.
He got the job and, with few exceptions, never left the seat.


尻，链接被河蟹了

这个人是水手队的御用解说
有中文我早转过来了，就是没找到啊 = =
至于翻译的问题，我也感到很抱歉，这都要工作不是？我现在都在加班，抽空来吧里逛逛的。

这个人是水手队的御用解说，名人堂，刚刚去世。