“Otherwise”, he told the Los Angeles Times on Tuesday, “I’d be saying goodbye like in grand opera, where you say goodbye 12 different times”.
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“As things turn out, the last game of the season, and my last broadcast, will be against the Giants, in San Francisco, Oct. 2, 2016 – exactly 80 years to the day that I saw that Giant-Yankee scorecard”.
NEW YORK (AP) Vin Scully says the last ballgame he will broadcast is the Los Angeles Dodgers’ regular-season finale regardless of whether they reach the playoffs. Scully will then follow the Dodgers on the road for their final road trip of the regular season in San Francisco. He said he will bid farewell to fans twice: at the final home game at Dodger Stadium on September 25, then at the final game of the regular season in San Francisco on October 2. By not working the postseason, Scully can say goodbye at Dodger Stadium in a much-deserved ceremony that will be all about his fantastic career.
In 1950 when Scully was hired as a broacaster by the then Brooklyn Dodgers, it must have been hard to imagine that sixty-seven years later he would still be calling games for the team. The team and Time Warner had used Scully’s farewell as a ploy to end the disagreement to no avail.
It was Game 2 of the World Series. He announced flawless games from Don Larsen, Sandy Koufax and Dennis Martinez as well as a handful of World Series games, including Kirk Gibson’s famous walk-off home run in 1988.
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Scully was NBC’s national voice for many years and he also called the famous Bill Buckner play in the 1986 Series and called football for CBS throughout the 1970s. About a week later, he’ll call his final game period.
