When Vin Scully began his broadcast career, Harry Truman was president, Major League Baseball had two eight-team leagues, and the Dodgers were based in Brooklyn. In a career that stretched from 1950 ...
Los Angeles is known for many things. The perfect weather, the beautiful surf, and the Hollywood strip all come to mind when The City of Angels is mentioned. But for those fortunate enough to grow up ...
For legions of Dodgers fans, Vin Scully was the voice of their beloved baseball team. But for many Angelenos, the ginger-haired broadcaster was more like a family member. A grandfather, a tío — ...
The voice resonating from the next booth was unmistakable. It was loud, and in this moment, agitated. This was more than a decade ago, in one of my early seasons covering the Mets for The Post, and ...
Vin Scully, with his wife, Sandra Hunt, waves to the crowd after his final broadcast from Dodger Stadium on Sept. 25, 2016. (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times) There is no better way to begin an ...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Hall of Fame broadcaster Vin Scully, whose dulcet tones provided the soundtrack of summer while entertaining and informing Dodgers fans in Brooklyn and Los Angeles for 67 years, ...
Hall of Fame broadcaster Vin Scully retired after the 2016 as the voice of the Los Angeles Dodgers, for whom had been broadcasting games since 1950 – when the club was in Brooklyn. Known for his ...
They will write about it — the sports commentators and the sports historians — and the fans, or the older ones at least, will talk about it when they talk of summer and baseball. I’ll write about Vin ...
The news broke Tuesday night, and I immediately called friends and colleagues, sharing stories and memories, trying to comfort one another. Vin Scully, the beautiful, soothing and powerful voice of ...
There is really only one way to start a column on legendary broadcaster Vin Scully — “Hello and a very pleasant good evening to you wherever you may be.” Tuesday evening wasn’t a very pleasant one for ...
No voice of legends past will rest in greater peace than Vincent Edward Scully, whose death earlier this week at age 94 etches a generational borderline between the good old days and tomorrow’s ...