Vin Scully, who spent 67 years as the voice of the Brooklyn and Los Angeles Dodgers, announced his last game yesterday at AT&T Park. I’m not sure what is more astounding about his career: that he set an unbreakable record for longevity or that he did so with undiminished sharpness at 88 years old. His final signoff is online here:
It is also worth noting that Scully called the most important moment in San Francisco 49er history: the Montana-to-Clark touchdown in 1982. It is one of Scully’s best moments as an announcer, when he cut into his partner Hank Stram’s analysis to call the play and then, after it happened, paused for an extraordinarily long moment to let the crowd tell the story:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAjvGFO3Ruc
When Scully left the booth, a part of my childhood went with him.
