The red-haired boy spent summer days playing stickball in the streets and collecting empty soda bottles, returning them for refunds so that he could buy a 55-cent ticket to the Polo Grounds. The crowd would roar, the sound would come out of that speaker like water out of a showerhead, and it seemed to wash down on me.” “Something would happen, and the announcer would get excited. “We had this big old radio, and I would crawl underneath it, and the speakers would be directly over my head,” he told The Times in 1994. 29, 1927, Vincent Edward Scully was only 7 when his father died of pneumonia and his mother moved the family to Brooklyn.
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Scully presided over some of baseball’s greatest moments: Sandy Koufax’s perfect game, Kirk Gibson’s World Series heroics and Hank Aaron’s eclipse of the all-time home run record.Īs players came and went, the voice of the Dodgers remained a constant, fans voting Scully the most memorable personality in team history.īorn in the Bronx on Nov. Veteran sports commentator Bob Costas spoke of Scully’s “command of language and quality of expression, the sheer sound of his voice.” The son of Irish immigrants also knew when to keep quiet, letting the roar of the crowd speak for itself.Īdd to these traits the gift of longevity, a career that spanned Dodgers history from Jackie Robinson to Clayton Kershaw and included network television stints covering football, tennis and golf. He could weave a narrative between balls and strikes, transforming nine innings into a folksy tale, raising even a lowly bloop single to literary status when he called it “a humble thing, but thine own.” It was Scully’s feel for the ebb and flow of the game that made him a Hall of Famer during more than six decades in the booth. His voice will always be heard and etched in all of our minds forever.” He was a giant of a man, not only as a broadcaster, but as a humanitarian. “The Dodgers’ Vin Scully was one of the greatest voices in all of sports. “We have lost an icon,” Dodgers President and CEO Stan Kasten said. FloR9dBhZj- Los Angeles Dodgers August 3, 2022
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