There aren’t enough superlatives in the English language to express how much I enjoyed listening to Vin Scully call a Dodgers game. David VanProyen Palmdale Dodger fans wear VIN T-shirts in honor at Dodger Stadium on Aug. 5. :: Every time I see a batter dump a ball into the outfield for a hit, I think of Vin Scully’s favorite …
To so many people in Southern California, Vin Scully was a voice on a transistor radio tucked under a pillow or drifting through the air from seemingly every car or home on warm summer nights. Alberto Franco, Whittier Sports Photos: L.A. remembers Vin Scully Photos document the reaction of Angelenos to the news of legendary Dodgers broadcaster Vin Scully’s death …
Today, you can walk into Dodger Stadium, device in hand. In 2016, when Vin Scully bid farewell to Dodgers fans before his final home game, this is how he put it: “The transistor radio is what bound us together.” The transistor radio went mainstream at about the same time the Dodgers arrived in Los Angeles in 1958, timing so fortuitous …
