Vin Scully, Voice of the Los Angeles Dodgers for Decades, Dies at 94
thewrap.compic.twitter.com/FloR9dBhZj“He was the voice of the Dodgers, and so much more,” the team wrote. “He was their conscience, their poet laureate, capturing their beauty and chronicling their glory from Jackie Robinson to Sandy Koufax, Kirk Gibson to Clayton Kershaw.”Scully’s longevity is almost hard to process.
He began calling Dodgers games in 1950, when the team was still in Brooklyn. He made it all the way to 2016, eventually downshifting to a limited, home-games-only schedule in the years after most broadcasters would have hung up the microphone.
Perhaps most satisfyingly, Scully never lost his gleaming edge of his wit wisdom.But Scully’s accomplishments behind the microphone are not even half the story.“He was a giant of a man, not only as a broadcaster, but as a humanitarian,” Dodgers CEO and President Stan Kasten said. “He loved people.
He loved life. He loved baseball and the Dodgers. And he loved his family. His voice will always be heard and etched in all of our minds forever.
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