Editor’s note: This interview from April 30, 2011 is being brought back following Vin Scully’s death Tuesday at 94 years old. Talked to Vin Scully on Friday....
FILE - In this Monday, Sept. 19, 2016, file photo, Los Angeles Dodgers' Hall of Fame announcer Vin Scully puts his headset on prior to a baseball game between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the San Francisco Giants in Los Angeles.Talked to Vin Scully on Friday. Sadly, it was only on the phone. Still, it was thrill enough.in Sports Broadcasting by the Fordham University student radio station. It’s Scully’s alma mater.
Scully is in his 62nd season calling Dodgers games. He started in 1950, when he replaced Ernie Harwell in the Brooklyn Dodgers booth to work alongside Red Barber and Connie Desmond. At 83, Scully has slowed down some. He is working only home games and all National League West road games. He calls the first three innings of every game on a radio/television simulcast. The final six innings are all on television. He works the entire game solo.Scully was a good-field, no-hit center fielder at Fordham and was on a team in the late 1940s that traveled to New Haven to play Yale, whose first baseman happened to be George H.W. Bush.Jan.
CBS had two finalists to team with John Madden in 1981. It came down to you and Summerall. What happened?“I think the judgment was I talked as much as John. The broadcast would be too heavy; there would be too much verbiage. I think they were right.”“I called the 1981 NFC Championship Game alongside Hank Stram. Flying home, I thought it would be a great game to end my career with. I was doing too much ... football, golf, baseball. I was never home.
Is it true that your favorite call came when a gimpy Kirk Gibson hit the game-winning home run for the Dodgers in the 1988 World Series opener against Oakland and you said, “In a year that has been so improbable, the impossible has happened?”“I think every now and then God gives me a boost. That was a special delivery from heaven. And after Aaron broke Ruth’s record, I said something like, ‘a black man in the South would be remembered for breaking the record of a white icon.
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