![]() Red Barber, the sports director of the CBS Radio Network, recruited Scully for its college football coverage. ![]() He received only one response, from CBS Radio affiliate WTOP in Washington, D.C., which hired him as a fill-in. While at Fordham, he helped found its FM radio station WFUV (which now presents a Vin Scully Lifetime Achievement Award each year), was assistant sports editor for Volume 28 of The Fordham Ram his senior year, sang in a barbershop quartet, played center field for the Fordham Rams baseball team, called radio broadcasts for Rams baseball, football, and basketball, earned a degree, and sent about 150 letters to stations along the Eastern seaboard. Broadcasting career Fordham and CBS Radio Īfter serving in the United States Navy for two years, Scully began his career as a student broadcaster and journalist at Fordham University, where he majored in English. Since he lived near the Polo Grounds and because he was a member of the NYC Police Athletic League and Catholic Youth Organization, he was able to attend games for free and became a "very big Giants fan". Scully discovered his love of baseball at age eight when he saw the results of the second game of the 1936 World Series at a laundromat and felt a pang of sympathy for the badly defeated New York Giants, who had lost the game 18–4 to the New York Yankees. He worked delivering beer and mail, pushing garment racks and cleaning silver in the basement of the Pennsylvania Hotel in New York City. Scully attended Fordham Preparatory School in the Bronx. He had one sibling, a younger sister who died of brain cancer in 2002, aged 67. 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". ![]() His father, Vincent Aloysius Scully, was a silk salesman his mother, Bridget (née Freehill), was a homemaker. He also called the World Series for CBS Radio from 1979 to 1982 and again from 1990 to 1997.īorn in the Bronx, Scully grew up in the Washington Heights section of Manhattan. In addition to Dodgers baseball, Scully called various nationally-televised football and golf contests for CBS Sports from 1975 to 1982, and was the lead baseball play-by-play announcer for NBC Sports from 1983 to 1989. He was known for his distinctive tenor voice, lyrically descriptive style, and signature introduction to Dodgers games: "It's time for Dodger baseball! Hi, everybody, and a very pleasant good (afternoon/evening) to you, wherever you may be." He retired at age 88 after the 2016 season, ending his record-breaking run as the team's broadcaster. Scully's tenure with the Dodgers was the longest of any broadcaster with a single team in professional sports history, and he was second only to Tommy Lasorda (by two years) in terms of number of years associated with the Dodgers organization in any capacity. He is considered by many to be the greatest baseball broadcaster of all time. Vincent Edward Scully (Novem– August 2, 2022) was an American sportscaster who was the play-by-play announcer for the Brooklyn / Los Angeles Dodgers, beginning in 1950 and ending in 2016. ![]() Los Angeles Dodgers "microphone" retiredīrooklyn Dodgers / Los Angeles Dodgers (1950–2016).Commissioner's Historic Achievement Award (2014).
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