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A very sad day in bay area sports

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woody1394

The longtime play-by-play voice of the Oakland A's, Bill King, passed away today from complications from hip surgery he had a couple days ago. While I never met him, I felt like I've known him for many years since I listened to him call A's games and Raiders games for so long. I always opted to listen to his play-by-play calling instead of watch the game on TV, since he always added so much enthusiasm to the games he called. He is definitely a legend and will be sorely missed by A's and Raiders fans.

http://oakland.athletics.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/news/article.jsp?ymd=20051018&content_id=1254009&vkey=news_oak&fext=.jsp&c_id=oak<P ID="signature">______________
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> The longtime play-by-play voice of the Oakland A's, Bill
> King, passed away today from complications from hip surgery
> he had a couple days ago. While I never met him, I felt like
> I've known him for many years since I listened to him call
> A's games and Raiders games for so long. I always opted to
> listen to his play-by-play calling instead of watch the game
> on TV, since he always added so much enthusiasm to the games
> he called. He is definitely a legend and will be sorely
> missed by A's and Raiders fans.
>
http://oakland.athletics.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/news/article.jsp?ymd=> 20051018&content_id=1254009&vkey=news_oak&fext=.jsp&c_id=oak
>
He was the best basketball announcer that I have ever heard.

And, all anyone that watches NFL films has heard many of his classic calls from the early 70's Raiders.
 
It is an absolute shame that he did not get the national recognition working for a somewhat small market team in the A's. Listening to the ridiculous calls in these baseball playoffs, especially the ones that are complete homers and don't even bother giving a dramatic call and instead are cheerleaders behind the mic make you realize how great King was.

Regardless of whether the big play came from the team he was broadcasting for or the opposing team, he'd make a great call and make it memorable.
 
> It is an absolute shame that he did not get the national
> recognition working for a somewhat small market team in the
> A's. Listening to the ridiculous calls in these baseball
> playoffs, especially the ones that are complete homers and
> don't even bother giving a dramatic call and instead are
> cheerleaders behind the mic make you realize how great King
> was.
>
> Regardless of whether the big play came from the team he was
> broadcasting for or the opposing team, he'd make a great
> call and make it memorable.
>
Lon Simmons, former partner of Bill King, as well as being in the baseball HOF, said basically the same thing earlier today in a tribute to him. Mr. King enjoyed and respected the sport (be it baseball, basketball, or football) and, although always perfering a home team win, called it so that greatness either way was noted.
 
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