SEATTLE - Legendary Seattle Mariners announcer Dave Niehaus was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame on Sunday.

Niehaus was presented with the Ford C. Frick Award, which is awarded annually for major contributions to baseball broadcasting.

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Seattle Mariners announcer Dave Niehaus was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame on July 27, 2008.

"I just wish everybody could experience the feeling I'm having now. There will never be anything like it again in my lifetime," Niehaus, 73, said on receiving the award.

Niehaus is noted for his signature calls "My, Oh My" and "Get out the rye bread and mustard, grandma it's grand salami time!"

He has broadcast nearly every Seattle Mariners game for 32 years. Entering 2008 season he had missed just 82 of 4,899 Mariners games.

He was inducted into the Mariners Hall of Fame in 2000 and was the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association Sportscaster of the Year in Washington State from 1995-1997. In 2004 he was named Sportscaster of the Year by the Washington State Association of Broadcasters.

"It's been quite a ride and it's not over yet, believe me the best is yet to come," Niehaus said at Sunday's induction.

Others inducted into the Hall included reliever Rich "Goose" Gossage, former manager Dick Williams, former commissioner Bowie Kuhn and former Dodgers owner Walter O'Malley, along with Billy Southworth, Larry Whiteside and Barney Dreyfuss.

"Cooperstown makes your heart soar while buckling your knees," said Niehaus. "Nothing will ever replace this moment ..."