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Vin Scully Was Los Angeles - The New York Times

Vin Scully Was Los Angeles - The New York Times

Vin Scully Was Los Angeles - The New York Times
Aug 04, 2022 2 mins, 21 secs

“It doesn’t make it easier, because we lost a friend,” said Rick Monday, the former outfielder and longtime Dodgers broadcaster.

“When I was in college, I wrote for The Times, so you probably saw my byline,” Scully said eagerly to begin an interview with The New York Times earlier this summer for a story about Gil Hodges, as if his days at Fordham University were just around a recent corner.

Another time, late at night after an interleague game at Angel Stadium early in the 2013 season, some news media members were awaiting a press-box elevator to head home for the evening when Scully joined them for the ride down.

In what was one of his final public acts, Scully wrote a letter to the Baseball Hall of Fame’s Era Committee to support Hodges’s candidacy for the Hall of Fame — a letter that was said to be very influential.

“Even when I wrote it, I had my fingers crossed that it would not be made public to an extent where suddenly I’m trying to step into the same spotlight because I didn’t want that at all,” Scully said this summer.

Kirk Gibson’s Walk-Off Homer, Game 1 of the 1988 World Series.

Sandy Koufax’s Perfect Game, 1965.

Don Larsen’s Perfect Game, Game 5 of the 1956 World Series.

A no-hitter, a perfect game, in a World Series.”.

Bill Buckner’s Error, Game 6 of the 1986 World Series.

Whatever’s going on in the world, whatever’s going on in your life, for these next three hours, I got you,’” Monday said.

“I was mesmerized by this game and mesmerized even more by Vin’s voice and the way he presented the game,” Monday said.

When Vin was doing a game, it wasn’t just the plays of the game, it was the pageantry of the game.”.

“So the Dodgers finally go to Chicago, and my mom can watch the game on TV,” Monday said.

“Vincent Edward Scully meant as much or more to the Dodgers than any .300 hitter they ever signed, any 20-game winner they ever fielded,” Murray wrote in a column published in August 1990.

When Kirk Gibson smashed that home run against Oakland’s Dennis Eckersley to set the tone for the Dodgers’ upset of Oakland in Game 1 of the 1988 World Series, Scully exclaimed: “In a year that has been so improbable, the impossible has happened!”.

“He wasn’t just an announcer,” Steiner said

“He wasn’t just a baseball figure

After the Dodgers-Giants game Tuesday night, Monday said he was up in his San Francisco hotel room until 5 a.m

“Vin Scully was better than the brochure,” Monday said

When he wasn’t sure what to do with it, Monday suggested he have Scully sign it

Culberson was shy, Monday asked and Scully said he would be “honored” to sign it

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