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Vin Scully will turn 87 on November 29.

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[oldbrowser]

I just wish some of the other sports announcers would emulate Vin's style.
It is a pleasure to listen to him.

[Donkey Odious]

My misspent youth was in SoCal. Vinny and Jerry were like friends that lived in my transistor radio. I remember listening to Vinny call the Sandy Koufax perfect game against the Cubs.....Does that make me old?! I am not the baseball fan that I once was, but if I know that Vinny will be calling a game on MLB I will tune in for a few innings just to hear him work.

Vin Scully is the master of the mike.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

Slacker!

Just kidding - as lucky as I was growing up listening to the great Lon Simmons and Bill King broadcasting Giants and A's games respectively, on late summer nights the radio would pick up KABC all the way down in LA and I'd get to hear Vin Scully calling the last few innings of some Dodgers game and extolling the virtues of Farmer John's hot dogs - I could root for the Dodgers to lose without listening to the play-by-play, but Vin made it worthwhile.

The man's a national treasure. If you get a chance to listen to him call an inning, savor it - TV will do but the great baseball announcers are best heard over radio. And Vin Scully's voice won't be gracing the radio waves on late summer nights forever.

[Darren McCarty]

My favorite Scully call - 1984 World Series

"and there it goes!"