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Cole, Hurdle delighted to meet Scully
- Updated: August 14, 2016
LOS ANGELES — Gerrit Cole is rarely starstruck. He’d only been nervous before meeting two people: Nolan Ryan and Derek Jeter. He added a third name to that list Sunday morning: Vin Scully.
Cole, who grew up watching Dodgers and Angels games in Southern California, stepped into the press-level booth at Dodger Stadium and chatted with Scully, the legendary baseball broadcaster in his 67th and final season on the job.
“I didn’t really even know what to say,” Cole said. “I had a few questions prepared, but I felt like they were really standard, vanilla questions that everybody asks. Just that voice. You grow up listening to it.
“When you turned to the Dodgers game, it was the big leagues because Vin was doing it. There was just something about it. Nobody talked. Everybody listened when the TV was on and we were watching the Dodgers game.”
Cole spoke with reverence about Scully’s style and stories. He was dumbfounded when Scully — a man who narrated Jackie Robinson’s story, Kirk Gibson’s home run and countless other …
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