For 34 seasons, Dave Niehaus narrated baseball in the Pacific Northwest. The golden Midwestern tones and trademark "My oh my" and "It will fly away" tags of Seattle's first baseball icon were silenced Wednesday. Niehaus, who called the first pitch in Mariners history and described more than three decades of occasionally good and mostly bad baseball, died Wednesday after suffering a heart attack at his suburban Bellevue home, according to his family. He was 75. "He was one of the great broadcast voices of our generation, a true gentleman and a credit to baseball," commissioner Bud Selig said. "He was a good friend and I will miss him. But he will be sorely missed, not only in the Pacific Northwest, where he had called Mariners games since the club's inception in 1977, but wherever the game is played." Read more: http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=5789958
