Scully, whose dulcet tones provided the soundtrack of summer while entertaining and informing Dodgers fans in Brooklyn and Los Angeles for 67 years, died Tuesday night at his home in Hidden Hills.
LOS ANGELES — Hall of Fame broadcaster Vin Scully, who called Dodgers games on radio and television for more than half a century and captivated generations of Southern California baseball fans after the club’s 1958 move from Brooklyn to Los Angeles, died Tuesday night, the team said. He was 94.Named the No.
Also a recipient of the George Foster Peabody Award for excellence in broadcasting, Scully covered 12 World Series and six Major League All-Star Games, in addition to football, golf and tennis, for CBS and NBC, but he will always be linked with the Dodgers. The team honored Scully with the dedication of the “Vin Scully Press Box” at Dodger Stadium in 2001.
From the days of Jackie Robinson and Duke Snider in Brooklyn, to the early years in Los Angeles with Sandy Koufax, Don Drysdale and Maury Wills, Scully was at the microphone for nearly every significant moment in Dodgers history since 1950. Scully also called Don Larsen’s perfect game for the New York Yankees in the 1956 World Series and Henry Aaron’s record-breaking 715th career home run for the Atlanta Braves in 1973.
Ever gracious both in person and on the air, Scully considered himself merely a conduit between the game and the fans. At age 22, he was hired by a CBS radio affiliate in Washington, D.C. In 1953, at age 25, Scully became the youngest person to broadcast a World Series game, a mark that still stands. “A Black man is getting a standing ovation in the Deep South for breaking a record of an all-time baseball idol,” Scully told listeners. “What a marvelous moment for baseball.”
He often said it was best to describe a big play quickly and then be quiet so fans could listen to the pandemonium. After Koufax’s perfect game in 1965, Scully went silent for 38 seconds before talking again. He was similarly silent for a time after Kirk Gibson’s pinch-hit home run to win Game 1 of the 1988 World Series.
In 1972, his first wife, Joan, died of an accidental overdose of medicine. He was left with three young children. Two years later, he met the woman who would become his second wife, Sandra, a secretary for the NFL’s Los Angeles Rams. She had two young children from a previous marriage, and they combined their families into what Scully once called “my own Brady Bunch.”
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