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As the voice of the Dodgers for over 40
years, Vin Scully is recognized as one of the truly great
baseball announcers. To baseball fans, including the
original Brooklyn Dodgers diehards, Vin is beloved as much
as the game of baseball itself.
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A native of New York City, Scully spent
two years in the Navy before he graduated from Fordham
University where he was a varsity basketball player. Scully
began his broadcasting career at WTOP-AM in Washington, D.C.
In 1950, the late Red Barber, together with Connie Desmond,
chose Vin to broadcast the Brooklyn Dodgers games. Thus
began Vin's illustrious baseball broadcasting career. In
1982 Vin rejoined the old Red Head, this time in the
broadcast wing of baseball's Hall of Fame as the recipient
of the Ford Frick Award.
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Vin moved with the Dodgers when "Dem
Bums" relocated to Los Angeles in 1958. With NBC and CBS
Sports, Scully has covered 12 World Series and six All-Star
Games for television as well as many of baseball's most
thrilling moments. A master of the English language, steeped
in the knowledge of the sport and with an understanding of
what fans want to "see" and "hear", Vin has enriched and
refined the art of sportscasting.
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Scully is the recipient of virtually
every honor which can be bestowed upon him including the
George Foster Peabody Award for excellence in broadcasting.
In 1985, Vin was honored by the American Sportscasters
Association with it's Sportscaster of the Year Award.
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