In 1950, Vin Scully broadcast his first major league baseball game for
the then-Brooklyn Dodgers. Nearly sixty years later he still invites a
listener to "pull up a chair," completing a record fifty-ninth
consecutive year of play-by-play. Recruited and mentored by the
legendary Red Barber, the New York-born Scully moved with the Dodgers to
Los Angeles in early 1958. His instantly recognizable voice has
described players from Duke Snider to Orel Hershiser to Manny Ramirez,
with hundreds in between.At one time or another, Scully has aired NBC
Television's Game of the Week, twelve All-Star Games, eighteen
no-hitters, twenty-five World Series, and network football, golf, and
tennis. He has made every sportscasting Hall of Fame; received a
Lifetime Emmy Achievement award and a Star on the Hollywood Walk of
Fame; and been voted "most memorable [L.A. Dodgers] franchise
personality." In 2000, the American Sportscasters Association named
Scully the Sportscaster of the 20th Century.The first biography of Vin
Scully is long overdue. Curt Smith--to USA Today, "The voice of
authority on baseball broadcasting"--is the ideal man to write it.
Scully opens each broadcast by wishing listeners, "A very pleasant good
afternoon." Pull Up a Chair will provide a reader with the same.
