Is Vin Scully in the Hall of Fame?
Hall of Fame broadcaster Vin Scully called thousands of games involving the Brooklyn and Los Angeles Dodgers during his 67 years in the booth. He chose his words as artfully as a painter stroking a brush across a canvas. Scully talked about life while chronicling routine plays and historical achievements. Sometimes he was just amusing,…
Hall of Fame broadcaster Vin Scully called thousands of games involving the Brooklyn and Los Angeles Dodgers during his 67 years in the booth. He chose his words as artfully as a painter stroking a brush across a canvas. Scully talked about life while chronicling routine plays and historical achievements. Sometimes he was just amusing, too.
Scully announced his intention to retire. He called his last game on September 25th of that year. He retired at age 88 in 2016, ending his record-breaking run as the team’s play-by-play announcer. In his final season behind the microphone, Scully announced most Dodgers home games on SportsNet LA television and KLAC radio.
Is Vin Scully in the Hall of Fame?
Hall of Fame broadcaster Vin Scully entertained and informed Dodgers fans in Brooklyn and Los Angeles for 67 years. Scully, the longest-tenured broadcaster with a single team in pro sports history, died Tuesday night at 94. Born in the Bronx, Scully grew up in the Washington Heights section of Manhattan.
His father, Vincent Aloysius Scully, was a silk salesman; his mother, Bridget, was a homemaker. He was of Irish descent. His biological father died of pneumonia when Scully was four, and his mother later married an English merchant sailor named Allan Reeve, whom Scully considered “my dad”.
