Vin Scully

Vin Scully, who was celebrated for his mastery of the graceful phrase and his gift for storytelling during the 67 summers he served as the announcer for Dodgers baseball games, first in Brooklyn and then in Los Angeles, died Tuesday August 2 2022 at his home in Los Angeles. He was 94. He began broadcasting at Ebbets Field in 1950 and called the play-by-play for the Dodgers’ local TV and radio broadcasts without a color analyst. Scully got the Dodgers’ top broadcasting job in 1954. Scully was born in the Bronx on Nov. 29, 1927. His father, Vincent Aloysius Scully, a silk salesman, died when Vincent was a child. He graduated from Fordham University in 1949. Scully’s last broadcast came on Oct. 2 2016.