Incredible that Vin was a towering broadcasting icon and baseball elder statesman by this point, yet went on to call games for over 25 more years. Certainly there will never be another like him.
This is 1990. He was put in the broadcaster HoF and was given a star on the Hollywood Walk of fame in 1982. In 72 he was offered a original spot on Monday Night Football. In 81 he almost became John Madden’s play by play guy instead of Pat Summerall. He use to announce football, golf, tennis, and baseball. By 1990 he was pretty much down to just the Dodgers. 89 was his last year being NBC’s national baseball broadcaster. By 1990, Vin was already the greatest and most accomplished announcer.
This is 1990. He was put in the broadcaster HoF and was given a star on the Hollywood Walk of fame in 1982. In 72 he was offered a original spot on Monday Night Football. In 81 he almost became John Madden’s play by play guy instead of Pat Summerall. He use to announce football, golf, tennis, and baseball. By 1990 he was pretty much down to just the Dodgers. 89 was his last year being NBC’s national baseball broadcaster. By 1990, Vin was already the greatest and most accomplished announcer.
To think that the Dodgers did not win another full season World Series again in his life. Even Vin probably thought that taking credit for winning a 60 game season W.S. was getting pretty desparate because of failing for sooooo long. WIN IT this year Dodgers for Vin! DO IT!!
Try 27 not 25 more seasons..With one team or as an MLB play by play announcer, period, he still has the record for both English language casts and, again, overall= 67, and the Dodgers Spanish language play by play announcer ECUADORIAN- AMERICAN, JAIME JARRIN is right behind him with his 64th season this year for the DODGERS, but unlike VIN SCULLY, JARRIN did not start with the DODGERS IN BROOKLYN. J.JARIN has been with the team since their second season in L.A. in 1959. He plans on retiring at the end of this season..he is 86..and considered SCULLY a mentor and dear friend. RIP, to the GREAT VIN SCULLY..as announcers, we're not worthy.
Had the chance to meet and talk to him once at LAX. Genuinely kind man and made you feel like you were a good friend to him. Truly one of a kind. There will never be another like him.
What a legend. You can tell Dave has enormous respect for Vin here. My 79-year old Dad grew up in Brooklyn and is going to be very sad when he sees this news. RIP, Mr. Scully.
@@ec6951 Yeah but being a Dodgers fan myself my entire life, There has never been a team that was so close nit and associated with the burrow they came from and played in. They spent less years there yes but I tell you without Scully, and the boys of summer in Brooklyn in the 50's the Dodgers lore of being such a American team like the Yankess goes by the wayside, Love my LAD but you cant forget the past and the roots.
@@Kurt77777 They are, they played in Brooklyn since early 1900s just changed there name a lot until the settled on the "Trolley Dodgers" a nickname to poke fun at the citizens of Brooklyn who had to dodge them a lot just to get around, eventually it was shortened to Dodgers.
My adult daughters grew up with Vin’s voice during baseball season. When I was in my fifties, I told them Vin was broadcasting Dodgers game before I was born. You should have seen their faces. ¡Vaya con Dios, Vin!
40 years at that point, and he was the Dodger's voice for additional 27 seasons until his retirement in 2016. RIP Mr Scully, the G.O.A.T., and Thanks Dave, for this amazing interview. Blessings to all from San Juan PR 🇵🇷.
It's Vin Scully and everybody else. The best broadcaster of all time and there isn't even an argument. Keith Jackson is really close but Vin Scully is in a league of his own no pun intended. Thank you Vin for so many great memories!!🙌👏
The best, but other great names come to mind. Curt Gowdy, Jack Buck, Al Michaels, Frank Gifford. Howard Cosell was the best at boxing. And if you ever watched PBA, Chris Schenkel was nice to listen to.
When the Dodgers we’re playing on a hot summers night, the TV or radio was playing with Vinny calling the game, it was a soothing narrative that flowed along like to a babbling brook. Just a brilliance that’s almost hard to comprehend
He was the reason I fell in love with baseball. Each night he had a broadcast, I would be in the dark in my room glued to that radio. I'd wake up and be groggy for school... but man, was it worth it. My favorite part was when he would say: "Interestingly Enough"... you knew what would follow would be some obscure fact, story or anecdote on the player many times it had nothing to do with the game. Good Times...Good Times. We lost a GOAT here.
Within the broadcast booth at Dodger Stadium, Vin Scully sat at the mic. The words he found were perfect - even poetic. "In a year that has been so improbable, the impossible has happened," he said. RIP Vin Scully
He knew it was not about himself. He knew to shut up and let the crowd and pictures tell the story for the Gibson home run, the Hank Aaron home run, the Sandy Koufax perfect game, the Bill Buckner error. So many announcers need to learn that.
They can't help themselves. They want to have their voice on Sportscenter. Vin was too classy for that. You could tell he had no desire to elevate himself above the play on the field.
As irreverant and sardonic as Dave could sometimes be; (and I loved that part of him) ...when Vin came out, Mr. Letterman showed nothing but deference and decorum for a baseball broadcaster who truly was a legend!
I never knew he was the GOAT until about 10 years ago when a guy from Chicago told me how lucky I was to live in LA and listen to Vin. To me, he was just the regular announcer for my favorite team.
I remember in 1965 taking my mom's transistor radio to school. I hid it and had the ear piece in so I could listen to the Dodgers play the Twins in the World Series. God bless you Vinny, rest well and know you will always be loved.
They don’t get any better than Vin Scully as an announcer or as a human. I say that as someone born in San Francisco who is a life-long Giants fan. My sympathies to everyone in the Dodgers family.
"...sooner or later that you will join the entire field going by." It's amazing how Vin was able to casually spin phrases that give such a sense of levity.
This is 1990. He was put in the broadcaster HoF and was given a star on the Hollywood Walk of fame in 1982. In 72 he was offered a original spot on Monday Night Football. In 81 he almost became John Madden’s play by play guy instead of Pat Summerall. He use to announce football, golf, tennis, and baseball. By 1990 he was pretty much down to just the Dodgers. 89 was his last year being NBC’s national baseball broadcaster. By 1990, Vin was already the greatest and most accomplished announcer.
Vin would have been offered Frank Gifford’s job. FG knew he was the straight man for Don Meredith’s goofiness and Howard Cossell’s arrogance and ignorance of the game. Mr. Scully had far too much class and respect for the athletes and the game to tolerate the other buffoons.
Rarely, and they certainly are not on TV or radio. I do not think most Americans know what a gentleman is or would recognize one. Very sad. But kudos to you for your comment.
They're both legendary. ..Born and raised in So. California but lived a while in the metro Detroit area and always loved Ernie; his voice was incredibly smooth and resonant. I loved George Kell's voice too . I still root for the Tigers when they're playing! 😃
Good interview. Wish it could have lasted longer. I wonder how people in New York, especially Brooklyn, felt about seeing a guy who harkens back to the Dodgers' Brooklyn days. Was it nostalgic? Did it bring back bad memories? I remember meeting a guy from Brooklyn who told me, "When the Dodgers left Brooklyn, they didn't leave Brooklyn. They died."
I hope our legend in Detroit Ernie Harwell and Vin will renew their friendship and have a long, long chat about baseball in the after life…RIP Vin Scully
And even when Don Drysdale was found dead in his Montreal hotel room, way back, Vin carried on for his broadcasting buddy in the same professional way, he always did. R.I.P. To Vin & Don.
In case you're wondering, Vin did go to Shea Stadium after this taping and the Mets beat the Dodgers 9-4. Then the next day they lost to the Met 7-0. Wasn't a good trip to New York for them.
I have heard many Vin Scully called games over the years. No disrespect to the man. He is clearly among the giants in his field. But with that said,…I so wish you could all hear just one complete Bob Uecker called game. And not one that he knows the spotlight is on him. Those he seems to force the jokes. I cringe at those. But just a seemingly irrelevant, insignificant game. One in which he spontaneously reacts to something he sees before him. An unusual play in the field, someone in the stands,…a recall of an event he personally experienced, that was initiated by one of his fellow commentators. Take Vin’s vivid calling of the game,…then simply add the funniest comedian on the planet. That’s Bob. No one compares.
All time great baseball announcer (and all of his other word-works). BTW, the Mets won the game that night, 9-4. Dwight Gooden, the winner pitcher, broke the game open in the bottom of the third with a bases-clearing triple. That won't happen again!
When Scully was laying out after that Gibson home run, not saying anything, you can hear someone clapping into the booth microphone. I don’t know if it was a spotter, or a producer, or Joe Garagiola, or maybe some Dodger fan who happened to be close enough for the microphone to pick up the sound. But I really hope it was Vin Scully celebrating for just a moment. Who could have blamed him?
Now it's a double edged sword. Now, the games are shorter so sponsors are losing money. So want do they do? They put ads in the middle of the game between pitches now. Smh.
8:33 Now, I question whether that band leader story ever happened the way Vin said, because that exact thing happened on All in Family. Mike and Gloria were playing and Archie wanted to get in and he used the initials E.C. and no one could figure it out and then he also said Exavier Cugats. I think Vin might have stolen that anecdote from AITF. LOL.
