He was the son of a silk salesman who died of pneumonia when Scully was 7. "His voice will always be heard and etched in all of our minds forever.” “We have lost an icon," team president and CEO Stan Kasten said.
He always said he wanted to see things with his eyes, not his heart. He lived a fantastic life, a legacy that will live on forever.”Īlthough he was paid by the Dodgers, Scully was unafraid to criticize a bad play or a manager’s decision, or praise an opponent while spinning stories against a backdrop of routine plays and noteworthy achievements. “He was in our living rooms for many generations. "There’s not a better storyteller and I think everyone considers him family,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said. "I am proud that Vin was synonymous with baseball because he embodied the very best of our national pastime.”Īfter the Dodgers' 9-5 win, the Giants posted a Scully tribute on the videoboard. “His voice played a memorable role in some of the greatest moments in the history of our sport," Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred said. He opened broadcasts with the familiar greeting, “Hi, everybody, and a very pleasant good evening to you wherever you may be.”Įver gracious both in person and on the air, Scully considered himself merely a conduit between the game and the fans.
In the 1990s, it was Mike Piazza and Hideo Nomo, followed by Kershaw, Manny Ramirez and Yasiel Puig in the 21st century.
He began in the 1950s era of Pee Wee Reese and Jackie Robinson, on to the 1960s with Don Drysdale and Sandy Koufax, into the 1970s with Steve Garvey and Don Sutton, and through the 1980s with Orel Hershiser and Fernando Valenzuela.
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I’m grateful and thankful I got to know him as well as I did.”Īs the longest tenured broadcaster with a single team in pro sports history, Scully saw it all and called it all. “He was the best there ever was,” pitcher Clayton Kershaw said after the Dodgers' game in San Francisco. Scully died at his home in the Hidden Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles, the team announced after being informed by family members. LOS ANGELES (AP) - Hall of Fame broadcaster Vin Scully, whose dulcet tones provided the soundtrack of summer while entertaining and informing Dodgers fans in Brooklyn and Los Angeles for 67 years, died Tuesday night.
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