Editors note: This is the author’s 22nd year with the A’s and his 12th as the team’s lead radio announcer. His book, “Holy Toledo! Lessons from Bill King: Renaissance Man of the Mic,” helped establish King’s case for Cooperstown.
Because I spent 10 years as his radio partner, people often ask me what the late Bill King would think about being honored by the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
That in itself tells you a lot about Bill: Every time I mentioned the Ford C. Frick Award, the highest possible honor a baseball broadcaster can receive, he would modestly change the subject.