Scully learned it all from Mel Allen and Red Barber, the class act two boroughs away in the Bronx.
“It’s going, going, gone - a Ballantine blast! How about that folks?!”
“And with Whitey Ford in the catbird seat, Mel, the Dodgers aren’t going anywhwere today but back to Brooklyn”.
I enjoyed hearing him call an exhibition game last night, Dodgers v. Angels. He always throws in a funny, wry observation of the play. He truly loves this game and all the characters involved in it.