Vin Scully....

[Grif]

..dead at 94. 94???? Where did that time go?

I think this was his greatest call....an announcer who knew when to shut the fork up and let it play.

 

[HaydenHunter]

Great moment in baseball history. As a Giants fan and Dodger hater, I clearly remember this 34 year old event. I was the sole Northern California Giants / Athletics fan sitting in a hotel room with a bunch of Southern California Dodger fan co-workers...I was down there for a trade show...and I was telling them how Oakland was going to dominate and sweep the series. Until that moment. I remember how Gibson's home run took the wind out of my sails. And I remember Vin Scully's call.

Years later, driving 40K+ miles a year across the great expanse of the western US, listening to my XM radio, I would tune in to Dodger games. Not because I didn't still hate the Dodgers, but because I wanted to hear Vin Scully call the games. He was truly special.

 

[ducknwork]

Joe Davis is good, but it sure has not been the same watching Dodgers games since he retired. There can’t ever be another like him.

 

[ducknwork]

Hard to beat Vin’s final call at home-extra inning walk off with the division on the line-

 

[ducknutz]

Was at his final broadcast game which was, ironically, at SF against the Giants. Truly one of a kind. About the only part of the Dodgers I didn't hate!

 

[Dek]

You could hate the Dodgers, like every Giants fan, but appreciate Scully. Heck, he called "The Catch" which set the stage for many Niner memories. I still almost want to puke every time I hear Gibsons home run. I grew up an A's fan, no clue how many games dad took me to at the Oakland coliseum back in the day. But that wasn't Scully's fault, he was just the voice that keeps it living forever!

 

[Grif]

We had Harey Carey here when I was a kid and he was in his prime, and then Jack Buck...and I always hated the Dodgers....Scully didn't have to take a back seat to either of them.

 

[HaydenHunter]

We had Harey Carey here when I was a kid and he was in his prime, and then Jack Buck...and I always hated the Dodgers....Scully didn't have to take a back seat to either of them.

I was a Chicago kid back in the 60s and also remember Jack Brickhouse.

 

[Grif]

I was a Chicago kid back in the 60s and also remember Jack Brickhouse.

I have no memory of him....you old forker.

 

[riverrat47]

Dizzy Dean. "He slud into thurd base."