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Posted on 08/26/2012 7:56:55 PM PDT by EveningStar
Hall of Famer Vin Scully is coming back to the broadcast booth for an unprecedented 64th season, the Los Angeles Dodgers announced Sunday.
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Vin Scully is a true American Classic.
He’s the reason I pay good money for MLB.TV each year.
One more year. Dodgers fans are truly blessed. Even when the team stinks, the announcer makes them worth watching.
I remember, as a little tyke, watching and listening to Vin Scully broadcasting for the Brooklyn Dodgers on Ch. 9 in NYC.
Duke Snyder, Jackie Robinson, Gil Hodges, Roy Campanella, Johnny Padres, Walter Alston (Manager). The Boys of Summer.
I think he was actually better as a football announcer.
Gotta disagree with you. He was fine as the number two or three CBS NFL announcer, but he only did football for a couple of seasons. He was also briefly a game show host on NBC back in 1970.
But nobody touches him in baseball. LA was fortunate to have Vin Scully and the late great Chick Hearn doing Laker games.
He called “The Catch” in the NFC Championship Game between the Niners and Cowboys.
If you watch the video clip hole-in-one posted, you would hear that Scully would blow away anyone else doing NFL play-by-play today, even if football wasn’t his primary focus.
Scully is so easy to listen to. He has a conversation with the audience. His blood runs Dodger blue.
Growing up in Los Angeles, the 2 best Announcers ever are and were Vin Scully and Chick Hearn...blessed to grow up with those two greats!!!
Growing up in Los Angeles, the 2 best Announcers ever are and were Vin Scully and Chick Hearn...blessed to grow up with those two greats!!!
Most notable:
Scully has been on hand for some of Baseball’s most famous moments, immortalizing many in calls that have since become part of the game’s lore:
The 1955 World Series, the Brooklyn Dodgers’ only World Series Championship
Don Larsen’s perfect game in the 1956 World Series between the New York Yankees and Brooklyn Dodgers on October 8, 1956
Sandy Koufax’s perfect game on September 9, 1965
Hank Aaron’s 715th home run on April 8, 1974
Rick Monday’s rescue of the American flag from a pair of protesters attempting to burn it on April 25, 1976
Bill Buckner’s muffed ground ball in the 1986 World Series between the New York Mets and Boston Red Sox on October 25, 1986
Cincinnati Red Tom Browning’s perfect game against the Dodgers on September 16, 1988
Kirk Gibson’s dramatic home run in Game 1 of the World Series between the Dodgers and the Oakland Athletics on October 15, 1988
Fernando Valenzuela’s no-hitter on June 29, 1990
Montreal Expo Dennis Martínez’s perfect game against the Dodgers on June 28, 1991
The Dodgers’ four consecutive home runs against the San Diego Padres on September 18, 2006
Scully’s incomparable vocal gift aside, he also has an impeccable sense of when to keep quiet and let the picture and stadium sound tell the tale.
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In the late ‘60’s my Mom & Dad lived in Elysian Park (Dad was a ranger there) and when we visited there during baseball season, my son & I walked to the game. Mom worked for a fellow who had season tickets that is often did not use, and he gave tickets to Mom so we could go to the games. Really enjoyed those days! And the seats were really special!
I have no use for the Dodgers - especially this new Yankees-West version bent on buying a pennant - but I will always listen to Vin Scully call a game. One of the all-time great voices of baseball.
He had the same job before I was born and I’m eligible now for senior citizen discounts.
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