Granny, get out the rye bread! Niehaus wins the Frick Award
2008-02-19 17:58
by Bob Timmermann
Longtime Mariners announcer Dave Niehaus, who started with the team at its inception in 1977, has been chosen as the winner of the Ford C. Frick Award, given annually for broadcast excellence.
"Tino [Martinez] was hitting a lot of grand slams at the time, and I had always used the term 'salami' for a grand slam, as a lot of us do," Niehaus said. "I remembered an expression my grandmother used, and that's when I came out with, 'Get out the rye bread and the mustard, Grandma, it's grand salami time.' The vendors have been sending me up stuff ever since."
The two in 1995 came within 8 days of each other in July. So that must be what Dave Niehaus meant.
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