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
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.
Almost all of us growing up have played baseball on some level. It has an inside track with people. It has a unifying effect.
One of my favorite expressions ever uttered by a player is Roy Campanella's line about how, in order to be a major-league player, you have to have a lot of little boy in you.
It is going to be funny for me to go into the clubhouse in Vero Beach and not know half the players. In fact, I really wish we had the names on the back of the uniforms more than ever this year.
I would think that right now the mound at Dodger Stadium is the lonliest place in the world.
He began his Hall of Fame career with the Brooklyn Dodgers at the age of nineteen, ... In 1955...
The Dodgers are such a .500 team that if there was a way to split a three-game series, they'd find it.
And look who's coming up. All year long, they looked to him (Kirk Gibson) to light the fire. All year long, he answered the demand; until he was physically unable to start tonight with two bad legs, a left hamstring, and a swollen right knee. And with two out, you talk about a roll of the dice. This is it!
Manuel Corpas is long and lean-the opposite of Olmedo Saenz.
And also it's an ever-gathering process. If I pick up the Sporting News or some sports publication and there's an article on somebody and I think I might see that player, I will tear it out and put it in a file, and I have a looseleaf book so when we're going to play that particular team I take out all these clippings and things I pulled out, I go through them, highlight them, put them in the book.
I love baseball and I don't want to be part of anything that would cheapen it or vulgarize it.