Bill King - Famous Calls and Phrases

Famous Calls and Phrases

King's trademark phrase was "Holy Toledo", which he used when a stupendous event occurred for the team he was announcing for. Other well known calls are "Not in your wildest alcoholic nightmare would you ever imagine such events unfolding!" which he said during an Oakland Athletics game against the Texas Rangers and "Crazy...Just Plain Crazy" which he voiced when the Scott Hatteberg hit his walk off homerun against the Kansas City Royals to push the Athletics historical win streak to twenty games.

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Famous quotes containing the words famous, calls and/or phrases:

    “My neighbors tell me of their adventures with famous gentlemen and ladies, what notabilities they met at the dinner-table; but I am no more interested in such things than in the contents of the Daily Times. The interest and the conversation are about costume and manners chiefly; but a goose is a goose still, dress it as you will.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Sir, that much prudence calls for too much worry; I cannot foresee misfortunes so far away.”
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    “She loved Cecil; George made her nervous; will the reader explain to her that the phrases should have been reversed?”
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