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tonight ESPN is playing tribute to Vin during the Giants vs. Dodger game. they are also letting Vin call the 4th inning tonight.
also for people of Los Angeles who don't get Time Warner cable. They are playing the last three home games on KTLA channel 5 vs the Rockies. they are also going to play the last games he will ever call next weekend in San Francisco again vs the Giants and again on KTLA channel 5.
great for me as i'm blacked out.
― Bee OK, Wednesday, 21 September 2016 23:40 (seven years ago) link
it appears this hasn't ever been posted -- 1964 SI profile by Robert Creamer
Before his graduation from Fordham in 1949 he wrote dozens of letters to radio stations up and down the East Coast, applying for a job. He did not really expect any results from the letters, but to his surprise he landed a summer spot as an announcer with a station in Washington, and there he picked up his first professional experience. That position ended when the summer did, and Scully returned to New York. One day he walked into the Columbia Broadcasting System office and asked to speak to Red Barber, who at that time was also sports director of the CBS network. Scully managed to see Barber and they had a pleasant, if brief, chat, but there was no job available and, in fact, Scully did not even fill out an application.
That fall CBS had a Saturday afternoon college football program, which Barber ran, that utilized a roundup broadcast of several games from around the country. Barber, on the air, would contact the announcer at one of the games, get a quick report from him and perhaps a few minutes of play-by-play and then switch to another game. One week the announcer who was supposed to handle the Notre Dame-North Carolina game in Yankee Stadium fell ill at the last minute. Ernie Harwell, who had broadcast Dodger games with Barber, was scheduled to do the Boston University-Maryland game in Boston, but Barber switched him to New York for the Notre Dame-North Carolina game, which was supposed to be the big game of the week. Then Red looked around for someone to take over the game in Boston. No one was available. Every experienced announcer was busy. Barber thought for a while and then said, "Who was that redheaded kid who came in here that day looking for a job? Anybody remember his name? Where was he from? Fordham, wasn't it?"
..."That winter Ernie Harwell shifted from the Dodgers to the Giants. Ernie had come up to the Dodgers in the first place when Red had gotten ill suddenly in Pittsburgh during a road trip, and when Red got better there were three of them broadcasting, Red, Ernie and Connie Desmond, who had been with Red for years. When Red came back, Ernie more or less made a job for himself, but when he got the chance to go over to the Giants he took it. Now the Dodgers needed someone to take his place. But they didn't want anyone with a great deal of experience. They wanted someone who could handle commercials and fill in for an inning or two now and then. Red suggested me. The agency that handled the advertising had some doubts, but Red got the ball club to let me go to spring training on a trial basis. Then Red called me and asked me if I'd be interested. Oh, boy! Here I was, 22, single, just out of college, and I'm asked if I'd like to go to spring training with the Dodgers!
"I had to go over and be interviewed by Branch Rickey, who was president of the Dodgers then. I spent three hours with him; I remember that because he had lunch brought in. He did most of the talking. He talked about the pitfalls a young man faced. He asked me, 'You married?' I said, 'No, sir.' He said, 'Engaged?' I said, 'No, sir.' He said, 'Go steady?' I said, 'No, sir.' He said, 'Got a girl?' I said, 'Well, no.' He chewed that cigar of his for a minute and then he snapped, 'Get a girl, go steady, get engaged, get married. Best thing in the world for a young man.' "
http://www.si.com/vault/1964/05/04/606816/the-transistor-kid
― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 27 September 2016 16:39 (seven years ago) link
one month passes...
one year passes...
two years pass...
five months pass...
one year passes...
Vin Scully, during the third inning of last night's telecast:Time called. The dreaded beach ball has shown up on the track in right field.
So Jeff Mathis will use the time and go out to talk to Jered Weaver.
Jered Weaver, as a kid — Mike Butcher, the pitching coach, watching. Remember three years ago, Jered opened up his major league career and went nine-and-oh, tying the American League rookie record for a starting pitcher set by the great Whitey Ford of the Yankees back in 1950.
All right, Jered bends at the knees and — wait, that's a joke. There's two, three beach balls.
I've always been amazed — I remember we were so thrilled just to go to a ballgame — but how people can make plans.
"Let's go to the ballgame."
"Yeah, do you have your beach ball?"
Well, they do.
All right, now we're ready, two balls and no strikes the count....
And from the fifth inning:
Time. And Mathis going out to the mound. Interesting now, every time the plate umpire orders time, I look for a beach ball. I mean, it's automatic. It's crazy.
loool, vin scully otm
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 3 August 2022 05:01 (one year ago) link
three months pass...
From a biography of Philip Johnson I'm reading, talking about his Wiley House:
"'A small, contained temple in the landscape,' wrote Yale architectural historian Vincent Scully, then a rising star, in an influential essay that appeared in Art and America."
A small, contained temple in the landscape--you've got to say that in the voice.
― clemenza, Sunday, 20 November 2022 15:21 (one year ago) link