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Originally published February 19, 2008 at 12:00 AM | Page modified February 19, 2008 at 8:01 PM

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Longtime M's announcer Niehaus going into Hall of Fame

Dave Niehaus has been chosen as the 2008 winner of the Ford C. Frick Award for broadcast excellence.

Seattle Times staff

Mariners broadcaster Dave Niehaus will be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame this summer.

Niehaus, a Mariners broadcaster since their first season in 1977, won the Ford C. Frick Award for contributions to broadcasting today, and will enter the broadcasters wing of the Hall in Cooperstown, N.Y.

Niehaus was inducted into the Mariners' Hall of Fame in 2000.

The induction ceremony will be during Hall of Fame Weekend July 25-28 in Cooperstown.

"I have had the pleasure of listening to Dave since I arrived in Seattle in 1983," Mariners president Chuck Armstrong said in a statement from the team. "More importantly, it has been my good fortune to become good friends with Dave. There is no announcer more deserving of this honor than Dave. His integrity and love of the game is unquestioned. It's terrific that the rest of the country will now know what we have known in the Northwest for a long time: Dave has been a Hall of Famer his whole career."

During his 31 seasons with the Mariners, Niehaus has called 4,817 of their 4,899 games.

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