The Dodgers recently announced that Scully will be back again next year for his 66 th season. He started with the Dodgers in Brooklyn back in 1949 and moved with them to L.A. Like a grandfather at Christmas dinner, Scully is at the head of the table evoking a sense of unity and tradition. They are all gone now cities have changed, stadiums were torn down people grew up and grew old – but, somehow, Scully remains. Harry Caray announced for the Chicago Cubs (singing “Take Me Out to the Ballgame” in the seventh inning) and Ernie Harwell (“That one is loooong gone.”) with the Detroit Tigers. Bob Prince (“You can kiss it good-bye!”) with the Pittsburgh Pirates, Jack Buck (“That’s a winner!”) with the St. There was Lindsey Nelson (“Hello everybody, I’m Lindsey Nelson.”) with the New York Mets. Mel Allen (“How about that!”) and Phil Rizzuto (“Holy cow!”) for the New York Yankees along with Red Barber (“Sittin’ in the catbird seat.”) of the Yankees and Brooklyn Dodgers. Close your eyes and you can almost hear them conjuring up the ghosts of baseball seasons past: He was part of a special breed of announcers who weaved the grand old game into your life, imagination and community. Scully is the last icon from a glorious broadcasting era that made baseball come alive. Scully, 86, is a time-traveling Dodger who captured the Brooklyn past of Jackie Robinson and Sandy Koufax and the Los Angeles present of Yasiel Puig and Clayton Kershaw.

'synopsis' may belong to another edition of this title.Baseball is a timeless game and Vin Scully’s voice echoes across the history of the National Pastime. Scully opens each broadcast by wishing listeners, “A very pleasant good afternoon.” Pull Up a Chair will provide a reader with the same. Curt Smith-to USA Today, “The voice of authority on baseball broadcasting”-is the ideal man to write it.

The first biography of Vin Scully is long overdue. He has made every sportscasting Hall of Fame received a Lifetime Emmy Achievement award and a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and been voted “most memorable franchise personality.” In 2000, the American Sportscasters Association named Scully the Sportscaster of the 20th Century. His instantly recognizable voice has described players from Duke Snider to Orel Hershiser to Manny Ramirez, with hundreds in between.Īt one time or another, Scully has aired NBC Television’s Game of the Week, twelve All-Star Games, eighteen no-hitters, twenty-five World Series, and network football, golf, and tennis. Recruited and mentored by the legendary Red Barber, the New York–born Scully moved with the Dodgers to Los Angeles in early 1958. Nearly sixty years later he still invites a listener to “pull up a chair,” completing a record fifty-ninth consecutive year of play-by-play. In 1950, Vin Scully broadcast his first major league baseball game for the then–Brooklyn Dodgers.

Pull Up a Chair by Curt Smith