Vin Scully, the voice of the Dodgers for more than six decades, died Tuesday
“We have lost an icon,” Dodger President & CEO Stan Kasten said. “The Dodgers Vin Scully was one of the greatest voices in all of sports. He was a giant of a man, not only as a broadcaster, but as a humanitarian. He loved people. He loved life. He loved baseball and the Dodgers. And he loved his family. His voice will always be heard and etched in all of our minds forever.
Born in the Bronx on Nov. 29, 1927, Vincent Edward Scully was only 7 when his father died of pneumonia and his mother moved the family to Brooklyn. Sports ran in his blood. A stint at his school newspaper and office work for the New York Times led him to a Washington, D.C., radio station after graduation. By 1950, the legendary broadcaster Red Barber had heard him and called to offer a job. As the third man on Dodgers broadcasts behind Barber and Connie Desmond, the 23-year-old newcomer studied his older colleagues.
By the fall of 1957, Dodgers owner Walter O’Malley had reached an impasse with New York officials over building a new stadium. The team known as “Dem Bums” packed up and moved to Los Angeles. Scully also drew occasional criticism. The night before the 1981 baseball strike, he chose not to mention that players were walking out. Years later, second baseman Jeff Kent bristled when Scully mentioned that he was hitting better with Manny Ramirez in the lineup.“Vin Scully speaks more words than any other broadcaster, but he’s entitled to,” Costas said in 2009. “He speaks them so well.”
His words radiated across Southern California’s car culture by way of dashboard radios, making the team’s flagship station a ratings winner each season. Television began airing a few Dodgers-Giants games from San Francisco, drawing a viewership that rivaled the top show, “Bonanza.” As Koufax worked his way through the inning, pitch by pitch, Scully provided a spellbinding account. No detail escaped the announcer’s eye: Koufax hitching up his belt and mopping his brow, the other Dodgers pitchers pressing against the bullpen fence to watch, fans hollering for a strike every time.
But perhaps the truest measure of the man’s talent emerged in less glamorous moments as he carried listeners through the dog days of summer. During a mediocre season in 1990, he said: “The Dodgers are such a .500 team that if there was a way to split a three-game series, they’d find it.” The separation between home and baseball worked both ways as Scully kept his personal life out of the broadcast booth. Fans rarely heard about his hardships, at least not from him.
By then, the whole country knew of Scully from network television. He called Major League Baseball’s “Game of the Week,” various All-Star games and golf tournaments from the mid-1970s through the ’80s. On the radio, he was at every World Series through much of the 1990s. “I think that Vin was very happy to meet Ray,” Costas recalled. “But Ray was over the moon. Like a kid meeting his favorite ballplayer.”
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