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Legendary Dodgers announcer Vin Scully, 94, dies
CBS Los Angeles ^ | August 2, 2022 | Matthew Rodriguez

Posted on 08/02/2022 8:29:53 PM PDT by chrisinoc

Legendary Dodgers announcer Vin Scully died Tuesday night. He was 94.

"We have lost an icon," said Dodger President and CEO Stan Kasten. "The Dodgers' Vin Scully was one of the greatest voices in all of sports. He was a giant of a man, not only a broadcaster, but he was a humanitarian. He loved people. He loved life. He loved baseball and the Dodgers."

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To: chrisinoc

Scully’s ninth inning call of Koufax’ perfect game on September 8, 1965. I listened the game on my transistor radio.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WINiz0Bfb-0


41 posted on 08/02/2022 9:06:31 PM PDT by chrisinoc
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Growing up in LA, we were spoiled with great announcers. Chick Hearn with the Lakers, Dick Enberg with UCLA and the Angels, Bob Miller with the Kings….but nobody was better than Vin. My mom became a huge Dodger fan when my dad was in Vietnam. Vin kept her company during the night. When were young, there was only one reason we could stay up late …to listen to the Dodger game on the radio. A great announcer and a great person. Thanks Vin, for all those decades of being there…


42 posted on 08/02/2022 9:11:42 PM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: dfwgator; All
yep, the Greatest of All Time.
43 posted on 08/02/2022 9:12:21 PM PDT by A strike (LGBFJRoberts)
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To: nutmeg

Very sad news. Vin Scully was a baseball icon. His research for each player on the opposing team was unmatched. Baseball fans across the nation mourn his death. RIP, Vin.


44 posted on 08/02/2022 9:16:53 PM PDT by NautiNurse (Nancy is going to Tie One on. )
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To: NautiNurse

And Scully would let the crowd tell the story when the big moments happened.


45 posted on 08/02/2022 9:17:47 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: SlipperySlope99

Some sports reporter once asked Scully how much baseball he watched since retiring. He said “none”.


46 posted on 08/02/2022 9:20:23 PM PDT by Pelham (World War III is entering on cat's feet. )
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To: chrisinoc

Scully started his Dodgers career working with the legendary announcer Red Barber. Barber left the Dodgers for the Yankees in a salary dispute in 1954, resulting in Scully becoming the main man in his mid-twenties.


47 posted on 08/02/2022 9:20:33 PM PDT by lasereye
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To: NautiNurse
His research for each player on the opposing team was unmatched.

Amen to that, FRiend. Now many MLB teams have TWO announcers who don't do even 20% of the research on the players that Vin did. Vin Scully was the absolute greatest.

48 posted on 08/02/2022 9:23:33 PM PDT by nutmeg
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To: chrisinoc

Rest in Peace, Vin.

This Brooklyn Dodgers fan will always be grateful for your vivid broadcasts of the games.


49 posted on 08/02/2022 9:27:04 PM PDT by miserare ( Impeach Joe Biden!)
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To: BookmanTheJanitor
My mom became a huge Dodger fan when my dad was in Vietnam. Vin kept her company during the night. When were young, there was only one reason we could stay up late …to listen to the Dodger game on the radio.

:-)

50 posted on 08/02/2022 9:27:07 PM PDT by nutmeg
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To: chrisinoc

Prayers for Mr. Scully, a lifelong Catholic who attended St. Maximilian Kolbe parish near Los Angeles for many years. After mass he was regularly approached by autograph seekers who were quickly chased away by ushers. Mr. Scully received a proper send-off by Kevin Costner.
https://youtu.be/VTxqkOU4GV4


51 posted on 08/02/2022 9:27:54 PM PDT by Falconspeed ("Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others." Robert Louis Stevenson.)
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To: BookmanTheJanitor

“Growing up in LA, we were spoiled with great announcers. Chick Hearn with the Lakers, Dick Enberg with UCLA and the Angels, Bob Miller with the Kings….but nobody was better than Vin. My mom became a huge Dodger fan when my dad was in Vietnam. Vin kept her company during the night. When were young, there was only one reason we could stay up late …to listen to the Dodger game on the radio. A great announcer and a great person. Thanks Vin, for all those decades of being there…”

Thank you, exactly my sentiments having grown up in the 60’s / 70’s just outside of LA. Many a night in late 1960’s when the lights were supposed to be out I had a tiny Sony 9v transistor Radio under my bed covers listening to Vin and Jerry Doggett call the games. 😢


52 posted on 08/02/2022 9:31:33 PM PDT by DAC21
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“Swung on and missed, a perfect game.”

Vin Scully’s call of the last batter of Sandy Koufax’s perfect game. Listened to this in high school, and I’ll never, ever forget it.

53 posted on 08/02/2022 9:32:32 PM PDT by Watershed
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To: chrisinoc

One of the greatest. RIP.


54 posted on 08/02/2022 9:34:50 PM PDT by SecAmndmt (Cv19 vaccines are Phase 2 of the CCP bioweapon)
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To: Watershed

“Swung on and missed, a perfect game.”

Also...

“A high drive to right field...she is gone!”

Well worth the listen....

https://youtu.be/N4nwMDZYXTI


55 posted on 08/02/2022 9:36:06 PM PDT by DAC21
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To: nutmeg

listening deep on the desert on a Mexican radio


56 posted on 08/02/2022 9:40:00 PM PDT by mylife (And I would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for you meddling kids...)
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To: DAC21

One game during Vin’s last year or there abouts (if I recall right) an opposing player came to bat against the Dodgers. The player was from Venezuela, at which point Vin went on to talk about the evils of Socialism going on in that Country (Hugo) love Vin!


57 posted on 08/02/2022 9:43:01 PM PDT by DAC21
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To: chrisinoc
The First Glorious Mystery: The Resurrection · Devout Roman Catholic Vin Scully
58 posted on 08/02/2022 9:43:04 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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To: DAC21

59 posted on 08/02/2022 9:44:47 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: chrisinoc

Back in 1989, he called a 13-inning NBC Game of the Week in St. Louis then flew to Houston to call a 22-inning Dodgers broadcast against the Astros. The game lasted past 2 a.m. Houston time.

Asked by a reporter if that was as hard as he ever worked, Vin went on to describe how he worked as a dishwasher in his youth during summers in the Catskills at a hotel and the steam from doing the dishes was so intense he would pass out two or three times a night.

“Next to that,” he said, “this was nothing!”

The Astros and Dodgers had an afternoon game to finish the series the next day. Los Angeles built a 6-1 lead but Houston got a grand slam homer and entered the ninth still behind, 6-5. The last batter was Craig Biggio, then a boyish-faced rookie catcher sent up to pinch-hit. Biggio spanked a 3-2 pitch into the first deck of the bleachers in left to tie it and a weary Scully moaned, “Don’t tell me!!”

Houston went on to win the game in the 13th on a sacrifice fly by pitcher Mike Scott.


60 posted on 08/02/2022 9:44:49 PM PDT by OrangeHoof (No food in the stores; fuel prices too high? Thank a liberal.)
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