was a football town then, but as Hall of Fame right fielder Duke Snider later remembered, Scully "educated" Angelenos on the game and made them care about the Dodgers, made them fans. When the team moved west in 1958, fans in the Los Angeles Coliseum, many in seats far from the action, took to listening to Scully's calls on handheld transistor radios, his voice carrying through the soft Mediterranean air of game nights. In a career full of memorable moments, the chance to tell the borough's downtrodden faithful, "Ladies and gentlemen, the Brooklyn Dodgers are the champions of the world," was his most cherished baseball memory. 4, 1955, when the bridesmaid "bums" of Brooklyn won their first and only World Series title, defeating the New York Yankees in Game 7 behind Johnny Podres. Iconic Dodgers broadcaster Scully dies at age 94.He began with the team as a 22-year-old graduate of Fordham University, at the invitation of the legendary Red Barber who saw in Scully an "appealing young green pea" whose earnest Irish lilt would connect with listeners. It is the longest association between a single franchise and an announcer in American professional sports history.
Scully broadcast Dodgers games, first in Brooklyn and then in Los Angeles, starting in the spring of 1950.
The sound, he said years later, "just poured over me." He loved the spark of the announcer's voice coming through the speaker from some far-off stadium and imagined himself in the crowd, surrounded by its happy roar. AS A BOY, Vincent Edward Scully often lay on the floor in the front room of his family's Washington Heights fifth-floor walk-up, put his head on a pillow tucked under a tabletop radio and listened to Saturday morning football games.
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