Vin E. Scully

Vin Scully's Debut at Ebbets Field 68 years agowww.si.com "All year long they looked to him to light the fire and all year long he answered the demands. High fly ball into right field. She is gone!  In a year that has been so improbable, the impossible has happened." This here is just one of Scully’s famous quotes. In this quote he is putting metaphors in to represent how well Gibson had played all year. In a year that was so improbable, the impossible happened. In a year that they were expected to lose they brought an injured man off the bench who hit a game winner. He made this one line the greatest saying of all time in baseball. This is just the start of what makes Vin Scully such a great person. Here is just an example of how he makes it seem real to you from home. You feel like your at the stadium when he is on the radio. "There's a high bouncer over the mound, over second base, Mantilla up with it, throws low and WILD... HODGES SCORES, WE GO TO CHICAGO. The Cinderella team of the National League." Once again he could have just said hit into center field and that the throw was wild like any other announcer would. But he describes each and every part about the play so it seems like you there and watching it. Vin scully wasn't just a inspiration to ball players and baseball fans but anyone who listened to him. He taught them to achieve their goals for however long it takes. At Vin Scully’s 67th anniversary as the voice of the Dodgers he said “It’s been 67 years I thought I was just getting started.” In 1936 a young redhead boy by the name of Vin Scully became a baseball fan after walking past a laundry mat and reading the score of a world series game in a newspaper cover. He read the score and it had said 18-4 in favor of the Yankees. The Yankees had just swept the Giants. Vin’s first reaction was he felt bad for the Giants and became a Giants fan. Until the best day of his life when he was hired as the Dodgers broadcaster on October 2 1950. Which Ironically marked his final day October 2 2016. And created what has became a big saying for Dodgers and baseball fans  “ITFDB”, It’s Time For Dodgers Baseball.

Having heroic traits requires doing selfless acts. You can’t do selfless acts without being humble. It takes hard work and dedication to get really good at something. It took Vin Scully at least 50 years to become the greatest announcer of all time. Vin Scully has shown heroic traits his whole life by being humble and modest. Since he was a little boy he has been more caring about his friends and family then himself. He is a ordinary person who does selfless acts to make other people's lives better.

What are Vin Scully’s most famous moments? Three perfect games (Don Larsen in 1956, Sandy Koufax in 1965 and Dennis Martinez in 1991) and 18 no-hitters. Johnny Podres’ shutout of the Yankees in Game 7 of the 1955 World Series, which gave the Dodgers their first World Championship. These are just a few examples of what Vin Scully has done.Each one of these is an historic baseball memory that Vin Scully was able to share with us and make even more special. In 2009 Vin Scully led the player votes for HOF inductees. GIving him the highest voting percentage ever to get into the Hall Of Fame. In 2009 Vin Scully’s plaque was put into cooperstown making him the first broadcaster to still be announcing to get into

the hall of fame. My hero is known for his amazing skill of making you feel like your at the game even if your just listening through the radio or on TV. He is describing the game at all time to make you feel like you are at Dodger stadium. He did miss the Dodgers' home opener for the first time that year, fighting a nasty cold that he described as being "only a click away from pneumonia", and then confirmed his return in 2014 later that season. In August of 2015, he announced that he would be back in 2016 for a 67th and final season behind the microphone. One of Vin Scully’s greatest announcing moments is calling the catch which was thrown from Joe Montana to Dwight Clark. This is what made football special to Vin Scully and other fans of him and the disrespect ruined his thoughts on the game. One of Vin’s other great calls was the 1988 World Series when the injured Kurt Gibson stepped up to the plate with the game on the line, and he hit a home run to win the game. My hero is kind and humble. Because he makes people feel special without even trying.

Joe Maddon and David Ross paying there respects to vin on his farewell tourwww.mlb.comBryce Harper and Dusty Baker saying farewell to Vinsports.yahoo.comWho idolizes Scully and why? Vin Scully isn't just popular to the vans hes a big difference in these players lives. One player who really appreciates Scully though happens to be Washington Nationals superstar Bryce Harper. That's because Harper listened to Scully’s classic calls and unforgettable stories many a night while growing up in Las Vegas. He especially wanted to say thank you for always making baseball fun for the home viewers. Harper, along with Nationals manager Dusty Baker, paid Scully a surprise visit in his broadcast booth hours before the game's first pitch.  The men exchanged pleasantries, talked baseball and even posed for photos. Above all, they expressed their respect for one another. ¨I remember growing up turning on the television and or radio broadcast hearing the amazing and wonderful voice of Mr. Scully talking not only about the players numbers or how they were doing that year, but the stories of life and beyond that! He will not only forever be part of the @dodgers, but also all around the game of baseball..Thank you for the memories and all the incredible things you taught people on and off the air! 🙌🏼 Thank you Vin #Legend #Dodgers #MLB¨- Bryce Harper. Vin Scully is such a popular announcer teams visit him and bring him gifts for everything heś done but he isn't in it for the gifts. Ross and Maddon presented Scully with a No. 67 from the Wrigley Field scoreboard as well as a Dodgers flag that flew at the Cubs' home ballpark. Maddon also included some T-shirts that the Cubs players are wearing this season with some of the manager's sayings, including "Respect 90," "Do Simple Better," and "The Process is Fearless" in Japanese. "He was really kind and gracious," Maddon said. "You have to be all of that to survive that many years besides being good. The way his authenticity and how he interacts with people, that really serves to keep you on that stage that long and successful. "He's just a different human being," Maddon said. "I really feel fortunate that I have been able to exchange a handshake and have a photograph. That's like the window to the world up there when you sit up in his booth and he talks about the purple mountains majesty and how it reminds him of that. You think if you're watching at home, that's his perspective and that's his view that he's describing for so many years."As you can see vin Scully is an idol to the players and encourages them to keep playing and make them better. Vin Scully attracts people to this sport and other sports and encourages people to achieve their goal and make everything much better and exciting.

Vin Scully is heroic for his ability to be an announcer and a humble, dedicated person to the two things he loves, his job and family also, he is a positive add to the community and has created so many special moments. Vin Scully is a broadcaster who has done 67 years as the voice of the Dodgers and in football is known for calling the great play “The Catch”. My hero has also been inducted into the MLB hall of fame and has received the medal of Freedom from the president. He received both of these awards before he retired from announcing. Vin Scully is inspiring to other by his hard work and dedication. Her is a humble role model who is respectful to everything. He does selfless acts without even trying and he is a great announcer who makes everyone feel very special. He turns baseball into more than just a game. Without people like Vin there wouldn't be as many announcer so good . They are all inspired by him to make the game better.Vin Scully is what makes baseball so interesting when your not at the game. Joe Davis the man who replaced the 90 year old Scully says everyday he tries to achieve the level of greatness Vin had created. And that’s what makes baseball amazing, the people who try to make baseball more exhilarating.

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