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A new book by A's broadcaster Ken Korach is a wonderful tribute to Bill King, Korach's former partner and a Bay Area broadcasting legend.
COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. — At long last, Bay Area radio icon Bill King was awarded the highest honor in baseball broadcasting Saturday. King, the A’s radio play-by-play man for 25 years, posthumously ...
Longtime Oakland Athletics radio voice Bill King is shown in this photo taken Thursday, April 15, 1999, in Oakland Calif. King, whose signature call of "Holy Toledo!" ...
Korach wrote a book about King called, of course, "Holy Toledo," King's signature phrase. I can hear Bill shouting it right now — "Holy Toledo!!!!" God, I miss him. I bet you do, too.
During a sun-splashed afternoon on baseball’s sacred ground, Bay Area broadcasting favorite Bill King finally got his due. “I think this is a Holy Toledo moment,” his stepdaughter, Kathleen ...
Korach worked with King and his book, "Holy Toledo - Lessons from Bill King: Renaissance Man of the Mic," is about a man he much admired.
I think this is a Holy Toledo moment. It is for me. Holy Toledo. I am incredibly honored to be here at the Baseball Hall of Fame to accept the Ford C. Frick Award on behalf of my stepfather, Bill ...
OAKLAND (CBS / AP) -- The late Oakland Athletics announcer Bill King has won the Ford C. Frick Award presented by the Hall of Fame for excellence in broadcasting. The award was announced Wednesday ...
NATIONAL HARBOR, Maryland — Holy Toledo, the wait is over. Bill King will be honored in Cooperstown this July 29 as the winner of the Ford C. Frick Award for excellence in baseball broadcasting ...