Who do you think is the greatest baseball player of all time? Your favorite team's all-time greatest manager is a possibility. I think it's Vin Scully. It has been many years. Even though I knew what made great play-by-play commentary, I still wanted to be a baseball analyst, and even though I knew what made great play-by-play commentary, I still wanted to be a baseball analyst, and even though I know what made great play-by He died a little over a year after his wife died of the disease. The man was 94 years old.
Stan Kasten, Dodgers president and CEO, said in a statement that they have lost an icon. One of the great voices in all of sports was Vin Scully. He was a giant and also a humanitarian. He was a big fan of people. He loved spending time with people. He was a big fan of the Dodgers. He was a big fan of his family. His voice will remain in our minds for the rest of our lives.
I don't think I can overstate how much he was revered as a broadcasters. He began calling Dodgers games in Brooklyn in 1950 with his mentor, the legendary Red Barber, and then moved to Los Angeles nearly a decade later. He talked about things with ease. The stories rolled off his tongue with ease. People in attendance at a ball game in the 60s would put their transistor radios to their ears to listen to the game being broadcasted by Vin Scully. He was a part of the Dodgers experience at both home and away.
Bob Costas said that with Vin it was one thing to achieve excellence or greatness. The command he had of the craft was awe inspiring.
Baseball's Saturday Game of the Week on NBC and countless World Series games for CBS and NBC were among the things Vin Scully did. He was in the booth when Mookie Wilson hit the first roller. The bag is behind the person. It gets through the city. The Mets win it with Knight. He said if one picture is worth a thousand words, you have seen about a million words.
In a year that has been so unbelievable, the impossible has happened, after an ailing Kirk Gibson hobbled to the plate in Game 1 of the 1988 World Series to hit a game-winning home run.
He called Sandy Kofax's perfect game in 1965, Joe Carter's World Series-winning home run in 1993, and Don Larsen's perfect game in the World Series.
You would think anyone could do the things he did, but no one could duplicate his genius. Did you know that there was a small sand timer in front of him? He had to say the score when the timer ran out. The cycle would begin again after he flipped the timer. When someone is listening on the radio, they can't see the score, or the runners on base, so Scully had to inform viewers who might have just watched the game. It's a technique that other legendary play-by-play men have picked up over the years, and that should show the impact Scully had on the game.
Red Barber always told me to go down the middle. If someone makes a good catch, the fans will believe me because I will say so if he butchered the play.
The old man who retired from broadcasting in 2016 was 89 years old. Until the day he decided to call it quits, he was the epitome of baseball broadcasting, the man other broadcasters wanted to be.
He loved the game of baseball and talked to his audience. It didn't matter what the world was going through or what he was going through personally, every " It's Time for Dodger Baseball!" was filled with so much enthusiasm, you couldn't help but feel excited to watch It was a unifying love of America's pastime that made Vin Scully call his way through countless baseball moments. It is with a heavy heart that I say goodbye to Vin. You did it as well as anyone could.
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