Watch Vin Scully’s Top Five Calls
For 67 years, Vin Scully has been the voice of the Dodgers. Tuesday, he began his final season of doing the play-by-play for their home games. He has been with the team since it's days in Brooklyn.
His 67 seasons with the Dodgers are the longest time any broadcaster has been with a single team in professional sports history. He began with the team in 1950.
He is second by one year to only Tommy Lasorda in terms of number of years with the Dodgers organization in any capacity.
Scully grew up in New York in the Bronx. He began his career as a broadcaster at Fordham University. Then he was recruited by the CBS Radio Network for their college football coverage.
In 1950, Scully joined Red Barber and Connie Desmond in the Brooklyn Dodgers radio and television booths. When Barber got into a salary dispute with World Series sponsor Gillette in 1953, Scully took Barber's spot for the 1953 World Series. At the age of 25, Scully became the youngest man to broadcast a World Series game (a record that stands to this day).
The rest, as they say, is history. Let's enjoy listening to Vin Scully's top five calls:
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