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Scully’s humility big part of legacy
- Updated: September 20, 2016
As legacies go, Vin Scully’s couldn’t be simpler. First, he made broadcasting a baseball game an art form. Others have done this job well — Russ Hodges and Red Barber, Jack Buck and Ernie Harwell. Scully admires many of them and has emulated some of them.
But no one has ever done it better than this man. Go ahead and tune in to one of these final games and check him out. Or go online and check out his work. How about his call of Sandy Koufax’s perfect game in 1965?
Through Scully, we are taken there. We can see Koufax running his fingers through his hair, fidgeting, shaking off signs, winding and delivering. No poet could have painted a more captivating description.
Scully has prided himself on a minimalist style — that is, describing the action and then allowing fans to live the moment for themselves through the roar of the crowd and their mental imagery.
Beyond any of that stuff, though, is the man himself. This is what’s stressed by the people who know him best. They speak of his decency and humility, his relentless belief that no man on Earth has ever been luckier.
“I attribute it to one thing and one thing only — God’s grace to allow me to do what I love for 67 years,” Scully said Monday. “It’s not me. I’m the vessel it was handed down through.
“My cup runneth over. God has been incredibly kind to allow me to be in position to watch and broadcast all these monumental events. I’m filled with thanksgiving.”
As Scully prepares for his final game as voice of the Dodgers on Oct. 2, he did a conference call with members of the Baseball Writers’ Association of America on Monday. He touched on a variety of subjects, including how he’d like to be remembered.
“I’d truly like to be remembered as a good guy, a good husband, a good grandfather,” he said. “A good sportscaster? That’ll be disappearing as the sands blow over the booth. I want to be remembered as an honest man, a man who lived up to his beliefs. I think it’s been God’s generosity to put me in these places and allow me to enjoy it.”
He’s scheduled to broadcast 10 more games, beginning with this week’s seven-game …
