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Edited on Thu Oct-20-05 02:38 AM by Zinfandel
Bill King! As Bill would excitedly, say..."Holy Toledo", Barry for TWO! YESSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!
(King, called that great, 1975 Warrior Championship Season---that everyone forgets)!!!!
Ray Ratto...
Bill King, as told to anybody he wanted. And maybe, because he was a stridently private man when it came to the subject of Bill King, there is a book somewhere, just begging for a publisher. ..
Bill was fearless. He said what he saw, not what he was told to say. He was accurate always, and he was witheringly critical when it was required. Listeners knew they were getting the straight deal every time, because he not only wouldn't lie to gussy up a player's profile, he couldn't. He wasn't trained that way, as so many broadcasters are now. He loathed homers, announcers who tart up the home team because they think they are providing a service, because being a homer requires an essential dishonesty he could not abide.
More's the pity if there isn't, though. He was eye-searingly brilliant in so many ways that his story would, if properly told, be a biography for the ages.
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