Posted on 09/25/2016 8:23:57 PM PDT by hole_n_one
After 67 years as the voice of the Dodgers, Vin's last call at Dodger Stadium was as it should be......
a Hollywood ending.
Then you don’t know baseball.
That makes sense-— God Bless Vin..
Maybe there is something to Lasorda's continual reference to the big Dodger In the sky
That’s amazing. Thanks for everything, Vin. You were the best and there will never be another one like you....
Hildy knows baseball plenty. Her late father, a FReeper BTW, was one of the great sports biographers.
Game 6 of the 1986 World Series
TV rights aren't with the local broadcasters during the playoffs. TBS, TNT, MLB, ESPN, Fox, etc. will have the games instead.
yea but he does radio
Yep I listened to late night games like that too, on a transistor radio.
Those were the days.
Amazing to think of a 67 year career broadcasting Dodger games.
These 67 years are longer than I have been alive.
Think about it — If any broadcaster starting this year had a 67 year career, he would be broadcasting until the year 2082.
And we could all think about all the changes in baseball and society since he started in 1950. The Dodgers were in Brooklyn. Major league baseball had only 16 teams, with St. Louis being the city farthest west in major league baseball. TV as we know it was in its infancy. Harry Truman was president. Etc. etc.
If it happened today, we'd hear Costas or Buck discussing something about global warming or the BLM movement as Gibson hobbled around the bags.
As a kid I was really hooked on the Dodgers and, of course, Scully. The older I got and listened to other announcers, the more I realized how amazing this man is.
Scully was also pretty good at announcing football. He made the call on Dwight Clark's famous catch against the Cowboys in the 1981 NFC Championship Game.
Kevin Costner said during FRiday’s Scully tribute at Dodger stadium that over the course of his 67 years broadcasting Dodger baseball, he has referenced players who were active at one time or another that spanned 100 years.
I think it's Joe Garagiola.
Thanks.
I watched it most of the day, starting about an hour before game time.
What a day.
I ‘remember’ Vin Scully’s first game and being an avid Dodger fan and not liking ‘change’, I made a ‘prediction’ that he would not last.
Well, I was 10 and a few other predictions of mine went awry.
Such as I never thought I would see 30, then 50.
Now I say I will never see 150 - if I ‘make it’ at least I will be a record holder.
The ‘Old Redhead’ knew what he was doing when he ‘hired’ Scully....
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