Posted on 08/02/2022 8:29:53 PM PDT by 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
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…
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.
And Scully would let the crowd tell the story when the big moments happened.
Some sports reporter once asked Scully how much baseball he watched since retiring. He said “none”.
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.
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.
Rest in Peace, Vin.
This Brooklyn Dodgers fan will always be grateful for your vivid broadcasts of the games.
:-)
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
“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. 😢
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.
One of the greatest. RIP.
“Swung on and missed, a perfect game.”
Also...
“A high drive to right field...she is gone!”
Well worth the listen....
listening deep on the desert on a Mexican radio
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!
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.
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