we have some tough news to pass
along.
The great Vin Scully has passed
away at the age of 94 from
Brooklyn to L.A Scully was the
voice of the Dodgers and is
generally regarded as the
greatest baseball play by play,
Man of all time.
Beginning in 1950 he called
dodger games for 67 seasons and
in 1982 he was honored with the
ford C Frick a war in a to his
Dodgers duties, Scully announced
NFL games and PGA Tour events
for CBS and later MLB games and
golf events for NBC.
In all, he broadcast 25 World
Series and 12 All Star games, as
well as three perfect games and
20 no hitters.
Matt Vasgersian Now with a look
at the man who provided the
soundtrack to summer for so many
people vin Scully.
Hi everybody and a very pleasant
opening day.
It's goose bump time here at
Dodger Stadium.
Vin Scully was the greatest
broadcaster in baseball that
there ever was maybe the
greatest sports broadcaster
there ever was two and 2 to
Harvey Team one strike away.
I've been around a lot of
professional athletes and a lot
of broadcasters over the years.
One guy who I was in awe is
vince going that has been so
impossible has happened.
There was just something to the
tone of Vin's voice that, you
know, it was exciting and
exciting and yet soothing.
Perhaps the most beautiful and
dramatic moment in the history
of sports.
Let there be a prayer for every
life and wherever you are, Maybe
you in silent tribute To
Campanella can say a prayer for
his well being and he had ways
of philosophizing about things
that were extraordinary.
It wasn't baseball, it was life.
His voice.
For one thing is, is something
that you never forget.
We've had all the pomp and
circumstance.
We've had all the fuss and
feathers.
It's time for dodger baseball.
There are certain broadcasters
that they come along, don't
matter what error they come
along.
There's no one like vin Scully,
Vincent.
Edward Scully was born November
29, 1927 in Bronx New York.
Growing up blocks from the polo
ground, Scully quickly became
enamored with the game of
baseball and the excitement it
elicited from fans.
I was a big Giants fan.
I grew up in the polar grounds.
My first love was with the roar
of the crowd and that's what
really intrigued me.
And when I was eight years old I
wrote a composition for the nuns
saying that I wanted to be a
sports and answer.
And that was the beginning of
the love affair from seven or
eight years old.
Anyway, that love affair would
manifest itself years later at
Fordham University where
Scully's broadcasts of RAM
athletic games, left a lasting
impression on red barber, The
then legendary voice of the
Brooklyn Dodgers and one day red
in the course of the broadcast
said this young man from Fordham
had been writing to me and
sending me tapes of his
broadcast of Fordham sports and
so I put him on a football
broadcast this winter that I was
anchoring, I thought he was
terrific.
I'm going to give him a little
shot here with the Dodgers.
It was an opening and red
decided I'm going to take that
red headed kid and I'm going to
make him an announcer.
And Scully was a very apt pupil
and a very rapid one, Vin
learned that reds feet and then
he said, he's going to do an
inning every game.
And then for that summer he did
one inning every game.
Thank you jerry and good evening
everybody.
And despite the fact that I have
just knocked a cup of coffee in
my lap in a suit that's just out
of the cleaners.
It's great to be home and we
knew he was great right away
because we will talk on the
corner.
The guys we get together, this
kid is good.
Scully's broadcasts resonated
beyond the street corners in
Brooklyn.
And when Red Barber left the
team following the 1953 season,
Scully became the Dodgers
primary announcer one out in the
first inning in case you might
have just dropped by scores in
1955 he was behind the mic for
game seven of the World Series
between his Brooklyn Dodgers and
the crosstown rival new york
Yankees moment.
That would prove to be one of
the most emotional of his
career.
The Dodgers had never won a
World Series.
And finally on the last out, I
said rather simply, Ladies and
gentlemen, the Brooklyn Dodgers
are the champions of the world.
Well, a lot of people all winter
long said to me, how in the
world could you have been so
calm?