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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, 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 ...
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. ...
Scully had a good teacher in Red Barber, who was broadcasting Brooklyn games when Scully was a young (Giants) fan. Barber had his practiced Southern patter. ... He was Vin Scully, ...
Vin Scully, who broadcast Dodgers baseball for 67 years, ... He was a protégé of Red Barber, who hired him in Brooklyn after listening to tapes of Scully’s Fordham games.
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, ...
The Los Angeles Dodgers paid tribute to Vin Scully on Friday in their first home game since the legendary broadcaster’s death. Scully, who was the voice of the Dodgers for more than six decades ...
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 pity is that Vin Scully could have been ours all these decades, our own unique, lyrical baseball gift. ... He was 22 when he first slipped behind the mic, paired with Red Barber, ...
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. In our recent ...