Scully retired from broadcasting in 2016 at age 88, nearly 70 years after debuting in the Dodgers’ booth alongside Red Barber and Connie Desmond in 1950.

Red Barber saw Jackie Robinson break into the major leagues on April 15, 1947. Red and Vin were eyewitnesses to see all the racist cat calls and treatment that Jackie Robinson went through.

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, , is widely viewed as the greatest baseball announcer of all time. But for an earlier generation, his mentor, Red Barber, held that distinction.

There were two sportscasting greats who preceded Scully and heavily influenced his style: most important was his mentor at the Brooklyn Dodgers, Red Barber, but also Mel Allen, who was the Yankees ...

Obviously the Dodgers felt he was great, too, because (owner) Walter O’Malley got rid of Red Barber to make Scully the number one guy.” That was in 1954 when Scully was 26.

On Jan. 4, 2021, Sandi Scully died of complications from ALS. The loss of his wife, paired with the death of Lasorda a few days later, was “almost too much to bear,” Scully wrote.

Vin Scully, the legendary voice of the Dodgers for 67 years, died Tuesday at the age of 94. In this 1999 interview with the Union-Tribune’s Jay Posner, Scully reflected on his long career doing ...

His mentor, Red Barber, taught him two things: “Shut up and slow up.” When he did speak, Scully said, “What a marvelous moment for the country and the world.

It all began, he says, with lessons in attitude from his mentor, Red Barber, another broadcasting great, who gave Scully his first big break and brought him into the booth in Brooklyn in 1950.