Well, the truth is, I could not
have said another word without
breaking down in crime.
Just three years removed from
Brooklyn's first title Dodgers
owner, walter O'Malley relocated
the team to Los Angeles and with
it came the budding voice of the
franchise afternoon.
Everybody, this is Ben Scully
speaking to you from the Los
Angeles colosseum as opening day
has finally come been goes to
the west coast and he within a
year instantly straightaway
becomes the Dodgers evangelist.
It's ambassador to the public.
People are stuck on the freeway
for hour after hour after hour.
What better way to spend it than
to pull up a chair even in your
car has been says and listen to
him and let the personnel in the
years change.
They are still the Giants and
the Dodgers.
No, two ways about it.
People thought, wow!
! Uh oh, this guy is so good.
And and they started bringing
the transistor radios to the
ballpark even though they were
seeing the game that wasn't good
enough.
They needed to know Vinnie's
take On it in 1958.
I made a trip with a bunch of
disc jockeys out from Miami and
we went to the Coliseum and
everybody brought radio to
listen to Scully do the games
and there was feedback.
He actually had to say, turn
your radios down.
There's too much feedback off
the broadcast.
I've never seen that.
Over the course of his storied
career, Scully provided the
soundtrack to some of the
greatest moments in baseball
history.
On September 9, 1965, he
chronicled Sandy Koufax's
perfect game nine p.m. And two
to harvey team, one strike away
standing into his wind up.
Here's the pitch On the
scoreboard in right field.
It is 9:46 PM in the city of the
angels.
los Angeles California.
Most people in southern
California said to me and it was
written up how dramatic, how
theatrical it was that I had the
time.
Well, it was pure luck.
I was just giving it for Sandy
and for his grandchildren and it
just seemed to play very well.
Vin was again behind the mic a
decade later as a different type
of drama unfolded at dodger
Stadium as cubs.
Center fielder rick monday
rescued an american flag from
would be arsonists imagine from
Koufax in monday's perfect plays
to Buckner's blunder there to
the most perfectly pitched game
in world series history go
there.
Never very Vin, Scully has given
voice to some of baseball's most
dramatic moments, but arguably
his most iconic call of all time
came in.
Game one of the 1988 fall
classic.
I can still hear Vinnie's voice
when uh Kirk Gibson is limping
out of the dugout coming up and
with two out you talk about a
roll of the dice.
This is it.
They set the moment the set up
and the follow up is also
tremendous high fly ball into
right field.
That has been so the impossible
has happened.
It's not really real.
Until then calls and people ran
to hear that call.
It was a perfect line If
scully's call of Kirk Gibson's
world series walk off was his
most iconic, perhaps his most
poignant came with Hank Aaron's
record breaking 715th career
home run.
The highlight we always here is
milo Hamilton.
You know, there's a home run
champion of all time.
You know, it's brilliant.
What you don't here is Vinnie's
description on the dodger radio
and then Vinny never said a word
for three or four minutes after
that, the fireworks went off the
roar of the crowd.
He just let it play When he came
back on the air.
He described the scene with
50,000 people on their feet.
What a marvelous moment for
baseball.
What a marvelous moment for