Bill King(XXVI)
Bill King was best known as the radio voice of the Oakland Athletics
baseball team for twenty-five years (1981-2005), having worked most of
those years with Baseball Hall-of-Fame announcer Lon Simmons. King is
also a perennial Ford C. Frick (Baseball Hall of Fame media wing)
ballot nominee. Earlier in his career, he had been a member of the San
Francisco Giants' original broadcasting team (together with Russ Hodges
and Lon Simmons), called University of California football and
basketball games, and had served as the longtime radio play-by-play
announcer for the Oakland/Los Angeles Raiders football team and the San
Francisco/Golden State Warriors basketball team.
Bill King's "Holy Toledo" call can be heard on any number of great sports calls and is featured heavily in the original archive material in Moneyball, the movie of the 2002 Oakland A's season starring Brad Pitt.
Bill King's "Holy Toledo" call can be heard on any number of great sports calls and is featured heavily in the original archive material in Moneyball, the movie of the 2002 Oakland A's season starring Brad Pitt.