It’s been a hell of week for sports fans.
Three days after Boston Celtics great Bill Russell died, Vin Scully, the long-time play-by-play voice for the Los Angeles Dodgers, passed away Tuesday night at age 94.
The team, which spoke to family members according to the Associated Press, reported that Scully died at home in the Hidden Hills section of Los Angeles.
Scully had a long and storied broadcasting career, calling Dodgers games for an amazing 67 years. His résumé included calling the Masters Tournament on CBS from 1975—when Jack Nicklaus won his fifth green jacket—to 1982.
“The big thing about being at the Masters, and unless you go there you don’t realize it, is the crowd noise,” he told Forbes in November of 2020.
Good shot of Vin Scully announcing the 1975 Masters: pic.twitter.com/TB2jJEqp
— SI Vault (@si_vault) January 24, 2013
Scully later called PGA Tour events alongside Lee Trevino on NBC Sports.
A golfer himself, he told Forbes that he enjoyed playing the game with his wife at golf courses around the world.
“I would never consider myself a good golfer, just an extremely lucky one,’’ said Scully. “I had three aces and I also had an eagle on No. 2 at Bel-Air Country Club. Those are my four shining moments from 45 years, along with playing with my wife. We had a lot of fun teasing each other.’’
He says he played till he was 93.
“I knew I couldn’t play anymore anyway,” Scully told Forbes. “It was an acceptance of where I am in my life, my age, and what I can and can’t do anymore. And one of the things was to recognize, in all truth, that golf was one of them.”
Scully had perhaps his most famous call in the 1988 MLB playoffs.
October 15, 1988: Kirk Gibson’s iconic injured walk-off two-out two-run pinch-hit walk-off home run off Dennis Eckersley to give the Dodgers a 5-4 win over the A’s in G1 of the World Series. pic.twitter.com/PJ4CYerMWB
— This Day In Sports Clips (@TDISportsClips) October 15, 2020
Scully also called one of the most famous plays in NFL playoff history.
When many people think of Vin Scully, they naturally think of the Dodgers.
But one of his greatest calls comes from the 1981 NFC Championship in what became known as “The Catch”.
Vin barely says anything, lets the moment speak for itself. @49ers pic.twitter.com/FToLgHgGln
— Alec Nolan (@AlecABC30) August 3, 2022
