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That's Amaury's News and Commentary: Bay Area broadcasters make Hall, but where's Bill King?? July 27, 2010 |
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ARLINGTON--San Francisco Giants broadcaster and ESPN announcer Jon Miller he's a nice guy I like Jon a lot he's a Bay Area product born in Hayward raised in the Bay Area a lot of people may not know that he started broadcasting the Earthquakes before he did baseball but he always had an infinity towards baseball he grew up in the Bay Area when people were listening to Lon Simmons and Russ Hodges. I'm very glad that he was inducted into the Hall of Fame on Sunday in Cooperstown he won the Ford C Frick Award and he deserves it he worked very hard. He's got a lot breaks including the break that he got in 1974 his only one and done year with the Oakland A's when Charlie Finley hired him to do A's games and then he was fired right after that season but it opened up a great opportunity for him and he was picked up by the Baltimore Orioles and then hired by the Giants in 1993 the rest is broadcast Hall of Fame history. He's well deserved and accepted the induction well which I viewed on TV. It's ironic that Joe Morgan his broadcast partner and co-Hall of Famer welcomed him to Cooperstown and every time I talk to my friend the subject comes up about Miller and Morgan who have the same initials and they were born miles apart. Joe Morgan was born in Oakland and lived in the East Bay and Miller was born in Hayward and they both have the same initials J.M. Joe Morgan, Jon Miller they're the voices of Sunday night baseball, so it's a beautiful story. Bay Area broadcast legend not recognized: One of the reasons so many people got to the Bay Area and they learned how to broadcast was because of Bill King and Bill King was the best bar none to ever call games in the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Area ever. He did baseball, football, and basketball no comparison to anybody Bill had his own style and it's a shame he's not in the Hall of Fame it really is. No disrespect to Jon Miller but Bill King should have been in there before and at the very least the basketball and football broadcast wings of the Hall of Fame. King who rears from Bloomington Illinois and was a Tigers fan and I had a chance to talk to him on numerous occasions, he was extremely intelligent, he spoke Russian, he knew all the ballets and the composers of the performances backwards and forwards, he was into Russian literature. A real renaissance man, he was a very smart man. He never really sought the fame and he really wanted to keep working which you really wanted to do in broadcasting which is a very tough business. Like in my case sometimes it makes it very tough to stay employed because there are so many changes with teams changing owners or radio stations. King just wanted to keep working. We miss Bill King a lot and he did what was in fact amazing in fact in the history of the NBA, MLB or NFL there is no other broadcaster we are aware of who did the play by play of all three sports full time on radio like King did. Again no disrespect to Jon Miller who also deserves to be in the Hall of Fame where Bill King should have been in there years ago. It's a shame Amaury Pi Gonzalez is the Spanish voice for Oakland A's baseball and does News and Commentary each week for Sportstalk Radio |
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