Still, however, what happens on the field does not often match what is happening in the booth or on the road. From 1975 to 1982, Scully announced National Football League telecasts for CBS Sports, teaming with several different color analysts including Sonny Jurgensen, Paul Hornung, Alex Hawkins, George Allen, Jim Brown, John Madden, and Hank Stram. AKA Vincent Edward Scully. Scully also uttered his famous introduction, "It's time for Dodger baseball!".[66][67]. “He talked to me in such a beautiful way that I will never forget. It was just the second time in 35 years the legendary sports broadcaster had missed a Dodger Stadium home opener: The first time was when he was busy broadcasting the Masters golf tournament for CBS in 1977. [65], At Game 2 of the 2017 World Series, being played at Dodger Stadium, Scully participated in a pre-game ceremony; addressing the crowd over the PA system, he implied that he was about to throw the ceremonial first pitch, and introduced Steve Yeager to serve as a ceremonial catcher.


Vin Scully, the beloved broadcaster who called Dodgers games in Brooklyn and Los Angeles for 67 seasons, is selling his personal memorabilia collection in September through Hunt Auctions. When he returned, she would wait all hours of the night until he walked through the front door. She was 85. “I couldn’t believe it in the beginning, but then reality set with me, and I lost my wife after 65 years of marriage,” Jarrín said, recalling the night she passed. Typically, the Gillette Company, the Commissioner of Baseball and NBC television would choose the announcers, who would represent each of the teams that were in the World Series for the respective year. In addition to calling Dodgers baseball, Scully called various national baseball, football, and golf contests for CBS Sports from 1975 to 1982, and was NBC Sports' lead baseball play-by-play announcer from 1983 to 1989. He is of Irish descent. The ceremony included speeches by Commissioner of Baseball Rob Manfred, Sandy Koufax, Clayton Kershaw, Mayor Eric Garcetti, the team's Spanish play-by-play man Jaime Jarrín, Kevin Costner, and Scully himself. The community has continued to support Jarrín. [6], 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. “That was the most beautiful talk I have ever held,” Jarrín said. Scully also reworked his Dodgers schedule during this period, broadcasting home games on the radio, and road games for the Dodgers television network, with Fridays and Saturdays off so he could work for NBC. I love to be around my son, my friends, my colleagues on radio and TV. Outside of Southern California, Vin Scully is remembered as NBC television's lead baseball broadcaster from 1983 to 1989.
An unauthorized biography of Scully, Pull Up a Chair: The Vin Scully Story, written by Curt Smith, was published in 2009.[71]. He was inspecting oil pipelines for leaks near Fort Tejon, California in the immediate aftermath of the Northridge earthquake in January 1994.

Having Jorge around has been a great help, Jarrin says.Â, “Without that, I don’t know what I [would] have done,” he says. Here comes (Ray) Knight, and the Mets win it. Items from the personal collection of Hall of Fame broadcaster Vin Scully sold at auction for over $2 million, including World Series rings from the Dodgers' championships in … “She didn’t go to bed without me. “He’s been my teacher, my mentor, my friend, my colleague.