Dodgers broadcaster Vin Scully. Mandatory Credit: Gary A. Vasquez-USA TODAY Sports
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Dodgers broadcast Vin Scully touched generations of MLB fans. Upon his passing, Twitter was awash with remembrances for the baseball legend.
Vin Scully spent 67 years calling Dodgers games. So Twitter had 67 years’ worth of love to express when the legendary broadcaster passed away on Tuesday at the age of 94.
Scully was so much more than a team play-by-play announcer. He was a storyteller above all else and he was a master at his craft.
Social media was full of favorite clips, fond memories and tributes to a man whose voice can never be replicated or replaced.
Vin Scully remembered, mourned by MLB world as unmatched legend
Please send me your favorite Vin Scully stories and calls. Just want to hear his voice on this warm summer night.
— Ramona Shelburne (@ramonashelburne) August 3, 2022
I was thinking about seeing Dennis Martinez throw a perfect game at Dodger Stadium in 1991 earlier this week. Here’s how Vin Scully called the bottom of the ninth: https://t.co/e1T6fNsWMp
— Dan Greenspan (@DanGreenspan) August 3, 2022
You can’t tell the story of baseball without Vin Scully. And nobody ever told the story of baseball better than Vin Scully.
— Chad Finn (@GlobeChadFinn) August 3, 2022
Vin Scully gave West Coast baseball its voice, SoCal summers their soundtrack for generation after generation. As kind and friendly off the air as on. Another piece of #Dodgers rich history is gone.
— Bill Plunkett (@billplunkettocr) August 3, 2022
I hadn’t heard Vin Scully much until I moved to LA in 1990. Figured he couldn’t really be as good as described, right?
Scully was actually much, much better than I ever imagined. A poet calling a game. A genius. You just FELT the game when he called it. And what a gracious man.
— Tim Kawakami (@timkawakami) August 3, 2022
On the occasion of Vin’s last Dodger game, I had the chance at @ocregister to write about his legacy and what he meant to his listeners. I’m not exactly a baseball guy. But it was truly one of the coolest experiences I’ve ever had in my career.
— Ryan Kartje (@Ryan_Kartje) August 3, 2022
I listened to Vin from Larry King’s living room. I listened with a 9-year-old on his transistor radio. I watched from a bar with a woman who saw Vin as her second father and had his face tattooed on her arm.
I found myself in awe of just how far and wide Vin’s voice could reach.
— Ryan Kartje (@Ryan_Kartje) August 3, 2022
For Tom Owen, one of the Dodger fans who listened along with me, Vin was a lifeline. Listening along every night was his respite from the real world.
It didn’t matter what was going on elsewhere. Vin was there every night, asking him to pull up a chair anyway.
— Ryan Kartje (@Ryan_Kartje) August 3, 2022
Vin Scully and Chick Hearn were the voices of Los Angeles for the past half a century. The city will never feel the same without them. https://t.co/mB33kTGfFz
— Adam Grosbard (@AdamGrosbard) August 3, 2022
Vin Scully called my brother’s MLB debut. I’ll never forget the sound of his voice say, “welcome to the big leagues, kid!” after pitching his first inning.
No one in the world like him, a special talent and soul 💙
— Ashley Brewer (@ESPNAshley) August 3, 2022
As an East Coast baseball fan, I associated Vin Scully with the end of the night — his broadcasts were the ones I chose to close out the evening from the West Coast. Lots of times his voice was the last I heard before I fell asleep. And he always made staying up feel worthwhile.
— Emma Baccellieri (@emmabaccellieri) August 3, 2022
Vin Scully called Dodgers games with players born in 1916 (Preacher Roe) and 1996 (Julio Urias). What an incredible life.
— Justin Ray (@JustinRayGolf) August 3, 2022
The tweets could go on and on and on. Each one helped to paint the picture of Scully’s impact on the baseball world, just as he could tell the full story of a baseball game with his words and his timely silence.
Scully began broadcasting for the Dodgers when they were still in Brooklyn in 1950. In 1958 he followed the team to Los Angeles and remained the team’s voice until his retirement in 2016.
He wasn’t just renown for broadcasting for the Dodgers. He also called games across sports for CBS, including the World Series from 1979 to 1982, golf, tennis and NFL telecasts from 1974 to 1982. He called The Catch when 49ers wide receiver Dwight Clark caught Joe Montana’s pass in the back of the endzone to win the NFC Championship Game over the Cowboys.
Scully worked for NBC from 1983 to 1989, broadcasting World Series, NL Championship Series and All-Star Games. He was the voice behind Bill Buckner’s infamous 1986 World Series error and Kirk Gibson’s epic home run in Game 1 of the 1988 World Series.
When it comes to broadcasters, Scully is incomparable.
