We’ve been blessed with some great announcers in the Bay Area in Lon Simmons, Bill King and now Jon Miller, but I always would stop to listen to an inning or two of Dodgers baseball in those late summer nights in my boyhood when the signal from LA would reach up here, just to listen to Vin Scully narrate his way through the game. All-time legendary announcer, and a huge part of baseball history.
I grew up in LA and then later in the Bay Area.
I think fondly of Lon Simmons.
Grew up in SoCal in the 50s. After the Dodgers (& Giants) moved west, O’Malley, the Dodger owner decreed that there would be only 9 games a year on TV (the games against the Giants). So we had to listen on radio and Vin made the game more alive to us than if it were on TV. He spoiled me (and no doubt countless others) for announcers. There have been plenty of great ones, but IMHO none can touch Vin. He deserves all of the praise that he gets.