A story that rings the bell

Most nights I end up listening to MLB.tv for various games in different markets for a period of time. Often these are games involving wagers I made or I just like to hear how different announcers sound in different markets, listening for possibly something I can write about.

Last night in Oakland, Pittsburgh and the A’s were wearing their late 1970’s uniforms, which are quite a sight if you haven’t seen them.

http://mlb.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?tcid=mm_mlb_vid

(Find the Oakland dominates behind Cahill and Barton video 6-26)

Anyways, they bring back announcer Monte Moore who started with A’s in Kansas City back in 1962 and was with them in the glory days of the 1970’s and was with the Athletics more or less until 1992.

Back in the 70’s, he would do pregame interviews and did one with reliever Darryl Knowles. He had asked Knowles about pitching the night before and Knowles had said he was throwing the ball fine until he gave up a “dinger”. Moore asked what he meant by that word and Knowles said “Dinger, you know a home run.”

This led to Moore coming up with a very popular call to Oakland fans, "There She Goes..." and "Ringer Dinger" home run call and he had a copper bell he would ring from someone who had given it to him.

Moore as to turns out brought back the very same bell he had retired 18 years ago and was doing an inning Saturday night calling the game and talking about yesteryear.

As luck would certainly have it, Moore was talking about the bell when the A’s Kurt Suzuki took a Pirate pitcher deep and if you listen and watch the video, you can here Moore talking about and ringing the bell.

After that they were all laughing and having a great time in the broadcast booth talking about what just happened. Very entertaining and pretty cool moment.