Vin Scully
Vin Scully
Vincent Edward "Vin" Scullyis an American sportscaster, best known as the play-by-play announcer for the Los Angeles Dodgers MLB team. He has been with the team since its days in Brooklyn. His 67 seasons with the Dodgersare the longest time any broadcaster has been with a single team in professional sports history, and he is second by one year to only Tommy Lasorda in terms of number of years with the Dodgers organization in any capacity...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionSportscaster
Date of Birth29 November 1927
CityThe Bronx, NY
CountryUnited States of America
On radio, you're in your own little world. Every time I'd be doing a possible no-hitter - I think I've done something like 25 no-hitters and a couple of perfect games - I would always put the date on the tape. Not for me, but for the player, so that 25 or 30 years later when he's playing it for his kids or grandkids, you have that date.
She may be the most energetic woman I've ever met. I just marvel at her optimism and her ability to get things done. She just can't be contained. She's bubbly beyond effervescent.
Now we're coming out here, and I was a bit leery. I was just starting to feel solid, and I knew, because I had been told, that there was a lot of pressure on Walter (O'Malley), the Dodgers owner, to use a local announcer.
Football is to baseball as blackjack is to bridge. One is the quick jolt. The other the deliberate, slow-paced game of skill, but never was a sport more ideally suited to television than baseball.
It's a mere moment in a man's life between the All-Star Game and an old timer's game.
To be honest, I've never been interested in how many games I've done and seen. It doesn't mean anything to anybody. All I know is I'm eternally grateful for having been allowed to work so many games.
The game is just one long conversation, and I'm anticipating that, and I will say things like 'Did you know that?' or 'You're probably wondering why.' I'm really just conversing rather than just doing play-by-play. I never thought of myself as having a style. I don't use key words. And the best thing I do? I shut up.
If I can get a story about a player, I would give you a ship load of numbers, batting averages and all just for that one precious story. That's the kind of thing that I love to do.
It's a great time of the year... if you can stand it.
It's a wonderful feeling being a bridge to the past and unite generations.
If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.
That really is my trademark. Day to day, week in, week out. If something happens and the crowd roars, I shut up.
I've told several writers this, and, again, I get back to it, but if you want to make God smile, tell him your plans.
I'm going to sit back, light up, and hope I don't chew the cigarette to pieces.