Vin Scully, who died on Aug. 2, 2022, is widely viewed as the greatest baseball announcer of all time. But for an earlier generation, his mentor, Red Barber, held that distinction.

Vin Scully showed up unprepared for an assignment once in his life -- and Dodgers fans were the better for it. It was 60 years ago this November, and Scully was a 21-year-old greenhorn, recently ...

He called games with such broadcasting icons as Jack Buck, Harry Caray, Red Barber, Curt Gowdy and Vin Scully.. He spent decades on NBC's national baseball game of the week, as well as years as a ...

Vin Scully, whose dulcet tones ... That summer, Scully was scheduled to meet with Red Barber, the head of CBS Radio Sports who was also called Brooklyn Dodgers games with his partner Ernie Harwell.

Vin Scully started calling games for the club in Brooklyn in 1950, ... where a CBS executive noticed him and took him to see Red Barber, the network’s No. 1 sportscaster. ...

On Monday, Barber got a call from B.U. apologizing for what they had put Scully through, all of which was news to Barber. “Red was so impressed — not so much with the job that I did, but the ...

Vin Scully, the gentlemanly, yarn-spinning play-by-play man whose mellifluous voice provided the soundtrack to Dodger baseball from Brooklyn to Los Angeles for a jaw-dropping 67 seasons, has died ...

Even after 50 seasons, Vin Scully still gets them. Goose bumps. ... From the day in 1950 when he joined Red Barber and Connie Desmond in the Brooklyn Dodgers’ broadcast booth, ...

Re "Vin Scully's is a rare voice," Column, Oct. 19 Just finished reading Hector Tobar's wonderful column about the great Vin Scully. A word picture of Vin Scully - Los Angeles Times ...

Vin Scully spent nearly six decades of his prolific play-by-play career calling Dodgers games in Los Angeles, but the Hall of Fame broadcaster was New York through and through. Born in the Bronx, S… ...

The luminous Vin Scully, baseball broadcaster nonpareil, is of course putting the finishing touches on his final season behind the mic. For as long as he's been around, Scully, of course, has ...