Legendary Sportscaster Vin Scully, Voice of the Dodgers, Prepares for Retirement
Legendary sportscaster Vin Scully wrapped up his final home game as the Voice of the Dodgers on Sunday, September 25, 2016 with one final walk-off home run call. The Dodgers were able to clinch the NL West, beating the Rockies on a walk-off by Charlie Culberson in the 10th inning, leading to Scully exclaiming, “Would you believe a home run?”
Born in the Bronx in 1927, Scully began his career in radio as a student broadcaster at Fordham University. He helped to found its FM radio station, WFUV, and was later recruited to cover college football for the CBS Radio Network. In 1950, he joined Red Barber and Connie Desmond for the Brooklyn Dodgers broadcasts; at the age of 25, in 1953, he was the youngest person ever to broadcast a World Series game.
When the Dodgers went west, Scully went with them, and became quite popular in southern California. Though he received offers to come back east, including one from the Yankees, he chose to stick with Los Angeles. Outside of his work for the Dodgers, he also worked with NBC to call the Saturday Game of the Week, as well as NFL games for CBS alongside John Madden.
Scully’s 67 seasons calling Dodgers games is the longest amount of time any broadcaster has been with a single team, and over those nearly seven decades he’s racked up his share of honors. In 1982 he received the Ford Frick Award from the National Baseball Hall of Fame, and he’s also been inducted into the American Sportscasters Association Hall of Fame and the California Sports Hall of Fame. In 1995, he received a Lifetime Achievement Emmy Award for sportscasting, and that same year he was inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame. He’s also got a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and the pressbox at Dodger Stadium is named in his honor.
On January 31, 2016, Scully announced his retirement would follow the 2016 MLB season. The games he’s called this season have been almost exclusively home games, save for the opening game at San Diego, two games against the Angels, and the full three-game final series against the Giants.
The final game he will call will be against San Francisco on October 2.
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Legendary Sportscaster Vin Scully, Voice of the Dodgers, Prepares for Retirement
Legendary sportscaster Vin Scully wrapped up his final home game as the Voice of the Dodgers on Sunday, September 25, 2016 with one final walk-off home run call. The Dodgers were able to clinch the NL West, beating the Rockies on a walk-off by Charlie Culberson in the 10th inning, leading to Scully exclaiming, “Would you believe a home run?”
Born in the Bronx in 1927, Scully began his career in radio as a student broadcaster at Fordham University. He helped to found its FM radio station, WFUV, and was later recruited to cover college football for the CBS Radio Network. In 1950, he joined Red Barber and Connie Desmond for the Brooklyn Dodgers broadcasts; at the age of 25, in 1953, he was the youngest person ever to broadcast a World Series game.
When the Dodgers went west, Scully went with them, and became quite popular in southern California. Though he received offers to come back east, including one from the Yankees, he chose to stick with Los Angeles. Outside of his work for the Dodgers, he also worked with NBC to call the Saturday Game of the Week, as well as NFL games for CBS alongside John Madden.
Scully’s 67 seasons calling Dodgers games is the longest amount of time any broadcaster has been with a single team, and over those nearly seven decades he’s racked up his share of honors. In 1982 he received the Ford Frick Award from the National Baseball Hall of Fame, and he’s also been inducted into the American Sportscasters Association Hall of Fame and the California Sports Hall of Fame. In 1995, he received a Lifetime Achievement Emmy Award for sportscasting, and that same year he was inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame. He’s also got a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and the pressbox at Dodger Stadium is named in his honor.
On January 31, 2016, Scully announced his retirement would follow the 2016 MLB season. The games he’s called this season have been almost exclusively home games, save for the opening game at San Diego, two games against the Angels, and the full three-game final series against the Giants.
The final game he will call will be against San Francisco on October 2.
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