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Title: There will never be another Vin Scully, the last link to baseball's glorious past. The 87-year-old retires for good on Sunday.
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URL Source: http://www.foxsports.com/mlb/story/ ... baseballs-glorious-past-100216
Published: Oct 2, 2016
Author: Staff
Post Date: 2016-10-02 18:26:49 by Horse
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Views: 733
Comments: 8
When Derek Jeter retired two years ago, it was the "end of an era" in baseball. David Ortiz will call it quits whenever the Red Sox finish their season and you'll hear those same four words used. It's the same when Peyton Manning or Tom Brady retires or when a league changes television networks (like when Fox grabbed the NFC from CBS in the mid-'90s), its playoff format or major rules. But in all those cases, eras aren't ending. A page is being turned or, sometimes, maybe a new chapter is beginning. There might never be another Roger Federer or Serena Williams but tennis won't cease to exit without them. (Witness golf and Tiger Woods.) The NFL was great on CBS and still great on Fox. Even though we think things won't be the same, the new reality is barely recognizable from the old one. The perceived ending of eras are most often erroneous and overrated. That being said, Vin Scully retiring is the end of an era baseball, and sport, that will never seen again. We'll never see anything like it again. The great Dodgers play-by-play man, who started with the team in Brooklyn, followed them to Los Angeles and became a national icon in calling some of the great moments in sports history but never left his trusty perch behind home plate at Dodger Stadium will call his final game Sunday, 67 years and almost 100,000 innings after his first. How long has he been around? Scully made it into the broadcasting hall of fame 35 year ago. The general manager in his first season behind the mic was Branch Rickey, the man who integrated baseball. Rickey was born in 1881. He called games involving players who'd faced Babe Ruth. Poster Comment: The creator of the X-Files grew up in LA and he thought Vin Scully was the Voice of God so he named one of his lead characters Dana Scully. The Dodgers lost today 7 to 1 to the Giants. In fact the SF Giants swept them. The Giants and the Mets play for the Wild Card spot on Wednesday. Winner plays the Cubs.
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#2. To: Horse (#0)
This is nice. I grew up on baseball and radio broadcasts and TV ones too - when I was a young teenager. I've been to Cooperstown, NY also. HOF.
Remember Red Barber and Connie Desmond of the REAL Dodgers? Could only receive the station at night, in the outback? Rosey Roswell Pirates in 1930s?
Well, I never gave celebrity status to sports announcers, but I know lots of fans do, even today. As a matter of fact if I'm watching a football game these days I normally his the mute button for 98% of the game - and listen in if there is a penalty call or something along those lines which might not be clear to me. Female football analysts - immediate MUTE button. I guess I'm getting to be a grumpier older man. Now in horse racing and handicapping my track usually has two experts who name their top three horses in each race; one woman and one guy and they're both pretty good at what they do. I'll often bet before they start their handicapping at about 12 minutes before the race. Ticks me off when they choose my horse(s) because the public often bets them and lowers the odds; e.g. from 8-1 to 5/2 by post time.
When I was a kid in Chicago in the 60s, Jack Brickhouse was the announcer for WGN-TV Chicago. When the Cubs would hit a homer, his familiar cry was "Hey! Hey!" I remember it well, despite the meningitis. ;)
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#3. To: Fred Mertz (#2)
I grew up on baseball and radio broadcasts
#4. To: Cynicom (#3)
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#5. To: Fred Mertz (#4)
Well, I never gave celebrity status to sports announcers, but I know lots of fans do, even today.
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