We lost a personal friend a couple of weeks ago. It just isn’t right for someone like yours truly, who grew up with Dave Niehaus, to let his passing go unnoticed.
I first became a fan of the “Great American Sport” far longer ago than I care to admit—the current phrase is “back in the days.” First there was the “Knothole Gang,” when the Seattle Rainiers played in the Rainier Valley, listening on my Grandmother’s vintage RCA four-foot-high AM radio. Back in those days it was Leo Lassen and his then-trademark, “And it’s a long fly ball to right field, and he’s going back, back, back and” (at this point Leo would either say “He makes the catch” or “It’s outta here.”)
