"Wilbur "Bill" King" was one of the most prominent sports announcers in San Francisco Bay Area history, widely recognized by his distinctive handlebar moustache and Van Dyke beard and his broadcasting catchphrase, "Holy Toledo!"

King was the radio voice of the Oakland Athletics baseball team for twenty-five years (1981–2005), the longest tenure of any A's announcer since the team's games were first broadcast in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania/Philadelphia in 1938, as well as the longtime radio play-by-play announcer for the Oakland Raiders/Oakland/Los Angeles Raiders football team and the Golden State Warriors/San Francisco/Golden State Warriors basketball team. Earlier in his career, he had been a member of the San Francisco Giants' original broadcasting team (together with Russ Hodges and Lon Simmons) when the Giants moved west from New York in 1958, and had called University of California, Berkeley/University of California football and basketball games.

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He's definitely in the lead.

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You would always see so-and-so is 57 or 32, ... and immediately you'd create in your mind what a 57- or 32-year-old looks like. And so from the time I was about 35, I didn't want any mention of that number. I just hated it.

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I think there are a number of factors that have led (to the growth), including the low interest rates giving people the opportunity to get into the home market.

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I get home so late from work that the packages that Fed Ex and UPS bring, they drop them off to the management office. They will actually bring those packages to my home, ... So I don't have to try to get home before the management office closes.

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If the track does not change, I intend to evacuate my family on Wednesday.

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(Then-Raider coach John) Madden asks the referees if it's real! ... They say get your big butt out of here. He does!

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The thing Tennessee has going for it is there's a heck of a lot of automotive in Tennessee.

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I would think that, on balance, that would be a major plus.

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The mother of all drills.

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