Vin Scully Awaits Wife’s Cue on Continuing Long Run (Dodgers announcer since 1950)

The New York Times ^ | April 30, 2008 | Richard Sandomir

[EveningStar]

Vin Scully did not — repeat, did not — take the opportunity of receiving a Lifetime Achievement Award in Sports Broadcasting on Tuesday from Fordham University’s WFUV Radio, where he got his start as a sportscaster in 1947, to announce his retirement as the voice of the Dodgers...

[Redcloak]

Vin Scully: What baseball sounds like.

[EveningStar]

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[SF Republican]

Hands down the best. I am moving back to SoCal later this summer and the dial for the Dodger home games will be set on Vin.

[Parley Baer]

Remarkable career and a remarkable story. Vin is among the best. I’m amazed he is still broadcasting and still at the top of his game.

[EveningStar]

I understand that you have a pretty good one in Jon Miller. I've never heard Miller announce a game but I did hear his Vin Scully impersonation.

[JimSEA]

What baseball sounds like

It doesn't hurt that I've been a Dodgers fan since they were in Brooklyn, but I've got to agree 100%. The best way to really enjoy a game is over the radio listening to Vin.

[EveningStar]

Another excuse to post Scully's great call of Sandy Koufax's perfect game

[JennysCool]

Jon Miller’s one of the all-time best and a lot of fun, especially when he broadcasts his home (Bay Area) games. His weekly ESPN gig is alongside the often-overly-dramatic Joe Morgan, so it’s somewhat less fun.

[Luke21]

Vin Scully is the greatest of all time. I used to spend my summers in the middle of the Arizona desert listening to him and Jerry Doggett on KFI, when it was a clear channel.

He hosted a game show on NBC back in 1970. It was called “It takes Two.” Back then he wasn't a legend quite yet.

I met him three times and still have his autograph. He and the late Chick Hearn of the Lakers tower above anyone else.

[tomkat]

Joe Morgan's prolly a good guy in real life, but goodlord does he have to repeat most every point he tries to make >14 times ???

And in unrelated carping: I hope the suits that got baseball off the radio choke to death on the dollars

[Fundamentally Fair]

Vin Scully: What baseball sounds like.

I'm glad to know that others feel that way.

[Fiji Hill]

I started listening to him announce Dodger games over KFI in 1960.

[Fundamentally Fair]

Scully, Doggett & Hearn...voices of my youth.

[tajgirvan]

Thank you for the great link.What memories !

[BurbankKarl]

its the last season baby....better listen up (and he isnt doing every game)

[The South Texan]

Used to love watching him and Joe Gargoila (sp) do the NBC Game of the Week.

[SF Republican]

Jon is good and very personable but my favorite SF announcer was Hank Grenwald - that guy was fantastic; I have two or three cassette tapes of Giants games he did in the late 80’s I listen to in the winter time when Oct has faded and spring is still far away.

[lardog]

I like Kruk and Kuip (sp) as the Comcast announcers. They compliment each other, are very knowledgeable and they are funny. The kind of guys you'd like to have a beer with.

[raccoonradio]

A friend of mine in the LA area will soon send me a tape of
him calling (part of) a game. He said he doesn’t
do too many games (esp. when they travel to the East Coast, for example) and said Dodgers radio broadcasts without him
aren’t as good...