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Todd Kelly

Legendary Dodgers broadcaster Vin Scully, who worked eight Masters, dies at 94

It’s been a hell of week for sports fans.

Three days after Boston Celtics great Bill Russell died, Vin Scully, the long-time play-by-play voice for the Los Angeles Dodgers, passed away Tuesday night at age 94.

The team, which spoke to family members according to the Associated Press, reported that Scully died at home in the Hidden Hills section of Los Angeles.

Scully had a long and storied broadcasting career, calling Dodgers games for an amazing 67 years. His résumé included calling the Masters Tournament on CBS from 1975—when Jack Nicklaus won his fifth green jacket—to 1982.

“The big thing about being at the Masters, and unless you go there you don’t realize it, is the crowd noise,” he told Forbes in November of 2020.

Scully later called PGA Tour events alongside Lee Trevino on NBC Sports.

A golfer himself, he told Forbes that he enjoyed playing the game with his wife at golf courses around the world.

“I would never consider myself a good golfer, just an extremely lucky one,’’ said Scully. “I had three aces and I also had an eagle on No. 2 at Bel-Air Country Club. Those are my four shining moments from 45 years, along with playing with my wife. We had a lot of fun teasing each other.’’

He says he played till he was 93.

“I knew I couldn’t play anymore anyway,” Scully told Forbes. “It was an acceptance of where I am in my life, my age, and what I can and can’t do anymore. And one of the things was to recognize, in all truth, that golf was one of them.”

Scully had perhaps his most famous call in the 1988 MLB playoffs.

Scully also called one of the most famous plays in NFL playoff history.

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