Baseball Legend Vin Scully Returning for One Last Summer in the Sun as Dodgers Announcer

by Eric Fulton
I have been a huge fan of the game of baseball since I was five years old. There are so many things I love about the game from the action to the stadiums to the men who tell the story of the game. No one calls the game better then and now than Hall of Famer Vin Scully. Scully has called thousands of games, particularly the with Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers.

Now, I have not heard all of Scully’s calls because for one, it is hard getting Dodgers games all the time living in central Arkansas. But for those who do not live in the greater Los Angeles area, we may only hear Scully call a game as little as once a season. However, just one time would make you appreciate the hard work and dedication this man puts into every broadcast.

Scully began calling games for the Dodgers in 1950, which was in the early stages of Jackie Robinson’s career. He has called many games when Connie Mack, baseball’s all-time winningest manager, was managing championship teams. Just recently, he just called a game involving Chicago Cubs shortstop Addison Russell, who was born in 1994. He’s seen more baseball history than almost certainly anybody in the history of our nation’s game.

Perhaps two of his most famous calls were when he was calling World Series games in the 1980s for NBC. The calls he made when Bill Buckner made his error in game six of the 1986 World Series and Kirk Gibson’s walk off home run in game one of the 1988 World Series are still epic calls still heard frequently to this day.

Last Friday, the Dodgers announced that Scully will be back for his 68th year in the booth in 2016, which will be the last for the broadcaster who will turn 88 in November.  He held a press conference on Saturday, and in true classic fashion, he was happy because he loves his job. I don’t think anybody’s ever seen Scully without a smile upon his face when talking baseball. What a tremendous voice that baseball will indeed lose after next season.

For those that love listening to the stories of Jack Buck and Harry Caray, just to name a few, you may want to have plans to watch a Dodgers game or few next season so that you have one more chance to listen to a great storyteller of baseball, probably the greatest storyteller of baseball. I also wish that he can somehow call the whole World Series as well. Nothing against Fox’s Joe Buck, but I would rather have Vin Scully call the World Series in his final season.

Thank you for your tremendous voice and major contribution to the game that I love, Mr. Scully. There are none quite like you.

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