The Los Angeles Dodgers on Tuesday night announced that legendary broadcaster Vin Scully died at age 94. Even “legendary” feels like selling him short.
I opened this post planning on waxing poetic about Scully’s impact on baseball and sports broadcasting and me (a onetime wannabe broadcaster), but nothing sounded like it was enough. There’s nothing I’m going to possibly write here that’s going to speak for a man who, for a career that spanned 67 years, spoke better than anyone else.
He will go down as the greatest broadcaster to ever live, and as the author of some of the most iconic calls in sports history. From “In a year that has been so improbable, the impossible has happened!” to “Little roller up along first, behind the bag – it gets through Buckner!” to this:
“Clark caught it! Dwight Clark!” ❤️💛 pic.twitter.com/qKofvuT1Ui
— San Francisco 49ers (@49ers) August 3, 2022
What a broadcaster. There’ll never be another like him.
RIP, Vin.
