PEORIA, Ariz. — Len Zickler didn’t know he would be sitting by a celebrity. Getting to watch a Mariners spring-training game two rows behind home plate was thrill enough for him.
Then he heard the sound that M’s fans everywhere have grown familiar with — the sound that not only reverberates throughout the ballpark, but seeps into the airwaves, too.
It is a beautif … it is a distinct sound that has blared for 24 years and become synonymous with the Mariners’ preseason. It is the sound of none other than the Bugle Man.