Hall of Fame Los Angeles Dodgers announcer Vin Scully was at AT&T park for the last Giants series and after six decades is still in his prime.
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Scully, 88, said he didn’t want too many farewells.
Even if the Dodgers make the playoffs, Scully, who has been the Dodgers announcer since 1950, will finish his career October 2 – fittingly in a series against the Giants, whose rivalry with the Dodgers has extended the entirety of Scully’s career. He won’t call Dodgers playoff games on TV.
Scully has two farewells coming up: First, on September 25 during the Dodgers’ final home game of the regular season and then a week later at San Francisco.
Really, it should be the entire Dodgers-Giants series from San Francisco that gets nationally televised, knowing that football – a sport that Scully himself has a legendary part in, in San Francisco, where he called The Catch by Dwight Clark – has a certain level of prominence on weekends. As he walked home from school one afternoon, at age 8, he passed a laundry that displayed the score of that day”s World Series game: “New York Yankees 18, New York Giants 4.
“I am encouraging all sides to remain at the table and end this season strong- with a solution worthy of Vin Scully and his loyal fans”. “I’m figuring probably the best possible scenario would be for the Giants to win that game big time in following that full-circle idea”.
For Scully, the most poetic sports broadcaster of all time, his career will have a poetic ending.
For Scully growing up in NY rooting for the Giants when they made Upper Manhattan their home; the fact that the Giants game will be his last, added a bit of sentimental value to the game.
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“And then I will go home,” he said.
