Posted on 08/26/2012 7:56:55 PM PDT by EveningStar
Hall of Famer Vin Scully is coming back to the broadcast booth for an unprecedented 64th season, the Los Angeles Dodgers announced Sunday.
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I was going to mention “The Catch” too. The irony that one of the best moments in San Francisco sports history was called by the Dodgers announcer.
Scully is the gold standard for play-by-play announcers.
The best announcer the Dodgers ever had was Ross Porter, the maestro of statistics.
He’s as good this year as he has ever been. It’s not like the sad final years of Harry Carey.
It’s always a pleasure to listen to a game called by Vin Scully.
I started listening to Scully and Dodger games when they played at the Colisium, with a net screen for left field.
Left hand batting Wally Moon would hit them over the left field screen for homers, which were called “Moon shots.”
I remember, as a little tyke, watching and listening to Vin Scully
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I remember when he broke in- Must have been a S/A at that young age as I recall saying “Nah, he’ll never last, that is Red Barber’s job”......hmmmm well, ‘Kreskin’ ain’t my name.
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BTW that is Snider and Podres....and how could you leave off my idol and hero, Pee Wee Reese....?
Scully is truly amazing. I’m a White Sox fan, but I have the MLB Extra Innings package, so come 10PM or so I’m often watching a Dodger game.
He does the games alone, and is absolutely on top, not only of every aspect of the game at hand (game situation, bench players avaialble, etc.), but of all facets of baseball: prospects, goings-on with other teams, rumor mills. It’s actually a little freakish.
I remember Harry Caray’s last few years - when he was a few years yonger than Scully - and sadly, he was somewhat of a joke. He was able to get away with it because he was larger than the game, really a unique character. But he had nothing like Scully’s encyclopedic understanding of major league baseball.
I hope the guy goes another 10 years!
Hank
Who is #2? (announcing for the same team, most consecutive years?)
Ping
Yay Vinnie!
Though I always loved Dizzy Dean and Pee Wee Reese calling the CBS Game Of The Week too.
"As you seen on your screen, he done slud into the base a-head of the ball."
My Dad, an English major loved Ole Diz. My Mom, an English major, cringed when she heard him speak.
Dad would tell people he majored in English and Mom minored in it, so he made major mistakes and she made minor ones.
Mom taught high school English for fifty years
2013 looks like being very promising for The Dodgers.
They interview Vin on MLB network he claim that he think Dodgers may have a team this year he said oh well I think I stick around call the World series games LOL!
I’d guess maybe Ernie Harwell with the Tigers?
Hank
Wow, I wouldn’t have guessed they kept records on this.
http://baseball.about.com/od/baseballinpopculture/tp/top10broadcasters.htm
1. Vin Scully, Dodgers (64 years)
2. Jack Buck, Cardinals (48 years)
3. Bob Uecker, Brewers (42 years)
4. Ernie Harwell, Tigers (32 years consecutive, 42 overall)
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