Los Angeles Dodgers announcer Vin Scully hints he may retire after the next baseball season

KPCC ^ | October 2, 2013 | Ben Bergman

[EveningStar]

Vin Scully recently announced he will return next year for a 65th season announcing baseball. He now says 2014 may be his last.

"Right, I'm pretty well sure – and I don’t want to go back and forth with it – but I'm looking to next year and thinking that should be about it," Scully told KPCC in a recent interview.

[EveningStar]

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[Dacula]

Vin is probably one of the last or the last of the great radio voices.

You can close your eyes and get a complete picture of everything that is going on at the ballpark.

Vin will be missed!

[ColdOne]

He will be missed. I love to hear him during the end of the season. He does the game he is at and does the games that matter for the playoffs. A true gem.

[Misterioso]

Maybe, to honor the great man, Dodger Stadium should be renamed Vin Scully Stadium.

[GreenLanternCorps]

Where it all began...

[GreenLanternCorps]

Vin Scully calling a Brooklyn Dodgers vs. Chicago Cubs game at Ebbets Field in 1957.

http://www.bullpenbrian.com/2013/03/01/listen-radio-vin-scully-dodgers-cubs-1957/

[justiceseeker93]

I don't think that Scully should have announced his return so early, but rather should have waited until the Dodgers' season is over. If he's thinking of retirement, there's no better way to go out than with a winner - if not this year, then maybe next.

Scully is more than a regional SoCal figure; he's a national icon, a true Hall of Famer in his line of work.

Still is amazing to hear segments of his broadcasting from afar. Seems to have lost little or nothing from his game. Much tougher for a baseball broadcaster now than earlier in Vin's career, what with all teams and players (so many with foreign names) and player movement from team to team.

I'm sure he's set an all-time professional sports record now with 64 years with the same organization. The only figure I can think of who was anywhere near that longevity was Connie Mack with the Philadelphia A's, and Scully is about ten years up on Mack.

[SevenofNine]

Yeah he may change his Mind ES

Let see if he does or not

I would miss Vinnie

[al baby]

Vinny has been a constant for us Southern California people in an ever changing world

[justiceseeker93]

There was an article on the LA Times web site Saturday(?) indicating that Scully now says that his earlier statement was misinterpreted and that he will make a decision next year on whether he will return for 2015.

[nutmeg]

Vin is probably one of the last or the last of the great radio voices.

You can close your eyes and get a complete picture of everything that is going on at the ballpark.

I so agree. Vin is the best!

I'm a Red Sox fan, living in Connecticut, but I absolutely adore Vin Scully. Truly the finest sports broadcaster ever, IMO.

Listening to Vin call Dodgers' games - all by himself, by the way, no "color" man - is well worth the price we pay for the MLB cable TV package! Wish we could subscribe to Prime Ticket directly so we could hear Vin Scully even more often.

[nutmeg]

There was an article on the LA Times web site Saturday(?) indicating that Scully now says that his earlier statement was misinterpreted and that he will make a decision next year on whether he will return for 2015.

Whoa! Wish Vin Scully could be around "forever"...