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
A lot of people in the ballpark are now beginning to see the pitches with their heart.
There's 29.000 people in the ballpark, and a million butterflies.
I'm just delighted to extend my time with the only team I have ever covered. This is the only organization I have ever been with and I'm thrilled and excited with this announcement.
He began his Hall of Fame career with the Brooklyn Dodgers at the age of nineteen, ... In 1955...
All my career, all I have ever really done, all I ever have accomplished, is to talk about the accomplishments of others. We can't all be heroes. Somebody has to stand on the curb and applaud as the parade goes by.
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!
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.
Football is to baseball as blackjack is to bridge. One is the quick jolt. The other the deliberate, slow-paced game of skill, but never was a sport more ideally suited to television than baseball.
It's a mere moment in a man's life between the All-Star Game and an old timer's game.
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.
He (Bob Gibson) pitches as though he's double-parked.