Legendary Dodgers broadcaster Vin Scully useless at 94

Victor I. Nava

August 02, 11:33 PM August 03, 12:43 AM

Vin Scully, the legendary voice of the Los Angeles Dodgers, has died at the age of 94.

The baseball staff declared Scully's dying on Tuesday. Scully was a Dodgers broadcaster for 67 a long time, retiring from his duties at the close of the 2016 period. His tenure integrated getting the radio voice for the crew for 8 years in Brooklyn ahead of the franchise relocated to Los Angeles in 1958. No other sporting activities broadcaster has been with any just one workforce for a more time interval of time.

"We have lost an icon," Dodger President and CEO Stan Kasten stated in a assertion announcing Scully's death.

"The Dodgers' Vin Scully was a single of the finest voices in all of sports activities. He was a big of a person, not only as a broadcaster, but as a humanitarian. He cherished people today. He liked daily life. He liked baseball and the Dodgers. And he loved his relatives. His voice will usually be listened to and etched in all of our minds permanently," he extra.

Scully, who was born in New York Metropolis and grew up the Bronx, began his broadcasting vocation in 1949 following learning journalism at Fordham University. He named his very first Brooklyn Dodgers match in 1950, a staff that fielded five potential Corridor of Fame players, which include Jackie Robinson.

Scully himself was inducted into the Baseball Corridor of Fame as the Ford C. Frick Award winner in 1982, one of his numerous achievements.

He also has a star on the Hollywood Wander of Fame and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Flexibility in 2016 by President Barack Obama.

The press box at Dodger Stadium was renamed in Scully's honor in 2011, and a area of roadway exterior Dodgers' ballpark renamed "Vin Scully Avenue" in 2016.

Around his job as the team's neighborhood broadcaster and as countrywide broadcaster, Scully has called some of the game's most iconic moments, this sort of as Kirk Gibson's sport successful dwelling run for the Dodgers in Video game 1 of the 1988 Planet Sequence and Boston Crimson Sox to start with baseman Invoice Buckner's botched endeavor to area a floor ball that finished Sport 6 of the 1986 Globe Series.

Scully is survived by his three daughters, two stepchildren, 16 grandchildren, and three wonderful-grandchildren. His son, Michael, died in a helicopter crash in 1994. His second wife of 47 many years, Sandi, died of problems from ALS in July of final year.

"I know he was wanting forward to becoming a member of the adore of his lifestyle, Sandi. Our views and prayers go out to his spouse and children in the course of this pretty challenging time. Vin will be really missed," stated Kasten.