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Post by hchoops on Aug 3, 2022 2:00:22 GMT -5
When the Dodgers left Brooklyn in 1957, we Brooklynites lost not only our beloved team, but the best announcer who ever lived Requiescat in Pace, Vin Here is the best tribute www.mlb.com/news/vin-scully-greatest-calls |
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Post by rgs318 on Aug 3, 2022 6:14:59 GMT -5
May this great announcer's voice and his soul rest in peace. He has my thanks for many classic calls at games I followed.
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Post by timholycross on Aug 3, 2022 10:39:06 GMT -5
Tough to choose between Jack Buck and Vin Scully when it comes to the call of Kirk Gibson's famous 88 WS homer off of The Eck.
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Post by hc6774 on Aug 3, 2022 11:11:04 GMT -5
as a Yankee fan growing up in NJ
...listening & watching the Dogers & Giants & surrounded by their fans... Vin Scully became the best when he moved out west
... can't remember who did the Giant games
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Post by mm67 on Aug 3, 2022 11:21:03 GMT -5
as a Yankee fan growing up in NJ ...listening & watching the Dogers & Giants & surrounded by their fans... Vin Scully became the best when he moved out west ... can't remember who did the Giant games Russ Hodges? And in the late '50's from SF Les Keiter who broadcast recreated games with sound effects on radio from SF. |
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Post by Chu Chu on Aug 3, 2022 11:31:47 GMT -5
A notable Fordham alum! Great bio in today's New York Times.
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Post by KY Crusader 75 on Aug 3, 2022 13:35:36 GMT -5
A great broadcaster and by all accounts a very nice man. Here's one story I heard: Vince had agreed to be interviewed by a young man-I think it could have been a broadcasting student, but not sure about that. In any case this young prospective broadcaster had landed an interview with one of the all-time greats in the industry. They conduct the interview and at the end of 45 minutes the young guy realizes that he had forgotten to turn on the recorder and thus has no interview. You can imagine the panic he felt, having blown this great opportunity. Vince learns what happened and simply says to the young guy: "Okay, let's do it again". That's class and empathy personified. May he rest in peace.
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Post by alum on Aug 3, 2022 14:45:37 GMT -5
A great broadcaster and by all accounts a very nice man. Here's one story I heard: Vince had agreed to be interviewed by a young man-I think it could have been a broadcasting student, but not sure about that. In any case this young prospective broadcaster had landed an interview with one of the all-time greats in the industry. They conduct the interview and at the end of 45 minutes the young guy realizes that he had forgotten to turn on the recorder and thus has no interview. You can imagine the panic he felt, having blown this great opportunity. Vince learns what happened and simply says to the young guy: "Okay, let's do it again". That's class and empathy personified. May he rest in peace. As a young lawyer, I tried an administrative hearing which was being tape recorded. There was no monitor present. Rather the ajudicator was operating a pretty cheap tape recorder. My client did not do well on cross examination and then she started crying. We got to the end. Opposing counsel had a rather smug look on his face. The ajudicator then sheepishly told us that nothing had been recorded. She did a better job the second time. I think we decided to to resolve our differences and settle the case. They were talking about Scully on WEEI early this afternoon before they went to the Sox broadcast. I learned that he called the Dwight Clark "catch" game. |
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Post by hchoops on Aug 5, 2022 16:15:24 GMT -5
One of the comments on The Athletic’s piece
VIn Scully graduated from Fordham Univeristy, where the Jesuits undoubtedly instructed him in their concept of "eloquentia perfecta". That's a Latin term which means "perfect eloquence". From Wikipedia: "The term connotes values of eloquent expression and action for the common good. For Jesuits, the term eloquentia perfecta was understood as the joining of knowledge and wisdom with virtue and morality." In practice, that means to speak simply and clearly, and never make yourself more important than your subject or your audience.
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Post by KY Crusader 75 on Aug 5, 2022 18:32:42 GMT -5
I didn't know that Vin was an outfielder for Fordham fora couple of seasons
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Post by purplehaze on Aug 6, 2022 12:45:49 GMT -5
As a Brooklyn native and having attended Dodger games as a very young kid at Ebbetts Field, I've followed Vin Scully my entire life - the tributes have been coming in all week but i recommend this 8 minute video which chronicles his life from his Fordham days to his last game at Dodger Stadium on Sep 24, 2016 - It's simply fantastic and intended for sports fans and non sports fans alike - A man of character in the best Jesuit tradition
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Post by longsuffering on Aug 6, 2022 15:48:02 GMT -5
Great video. Vin's first assignment at Fenway Park pitted 6-0 15th in the nation BU against 5-1 Maryland in front of 30,263. 14-13 Terrapins.
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Post by hc87 on Aug 8, 2022 10:32:22 GMT -5
Any idea if Scully evah broadcast an HC football or hoop game? You would think he must have given the time period he was still in NYC.
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Post by hchoops on Aug 8, 2022 12:20:59 GMT -5
He left Brooklyn in 1957.
I believe he announced only baseball in his early years in Brooklyn.
He started out as the third man to Red Barber and Connie Desmond, arguably the best announcing team of all time.
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Post by longsuffering on Aug 8, 2022 21:45:20 GMT -5
Any idea if Scully evah broadcast an HC football or hoop game? You would think he must have given the time period he was still in NYC. His second assignment after BU-Maryland was the Harvard-Yale game. Not the 1949 HC-BC game unfortunately. |
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