Vin Scully Dies: Main League Baseball and Los Angeles Reacts

The sports activities world and the town of Los Angeles are paying tribute to Vin Scully, the legendary sports activities announcer that referred to as 67 seasons of Dodgers baseball. Scully died Tuesday on the age of 94, abandoning a towering legacy as one of the outstanding and devoted play-by-play announcers ever.

“We’ve got misplaced an icon,” mentioned Dodger president and CEO Stan Kasten in an announcement saying Scully’s demise. “Vin Scully was one of many biggest voices in all of sports activities. He was a large of a person, not solely as a broadcaster, however as a humanitarian. He liked individuals. He liked life. He liked baseball and the Dodgers. And he liked his household.”

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The group shared a second tribute publish to Scully, detailing his historical past with the Dodgers which dated again to the group’s days enjoying in Brooklyn within the Fifties.

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Major League Baseball shared a video of Scully’s closing sign-off as a daily sports activities commentator on Oct. 2, 2016.

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Los Angeles mayor Eric Garcetti referred to as Scully’s demise “the tip of a chapter of our metropolis’s historical past” and deemed the announcer “the Voice of LA.”

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“Twin Peaks” co-creator and novelist Mark Frost recalled listening to Scully’s voice name video games alongside his father, sharing that he was “proud to name him my pal these final 20 years.”

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Dave Stewart, the elite pitcher who netted the 1989 World Sequence MVP award, referred to as Scully “the usual for broadcasting.”

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Los Angeles Lakers legend shared a tribute to Scully: “He had a voice and a means of storytelling that made you assume he was solely speaking to you.”

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Tv anchor Mark Mester shared a video of Scully becoming a member of “KTLA 5 Weekend Morning Information” and providing one other intonation of “It’s time for Dodgers baseball!”

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Sports activities author and documentary filmmaker Jon Bois acknowledged that there was no person who’s ever lived who he admired as a lot as Scully: “I used to be and am in awe of him.”

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NBC Sports activities Bay Space reporter Alex Pavlovic shared a remark by San Francisco Giants commentator Mike Krukow on Scully’s demise: “I figured if he mentioned my identify on the radio, I had arrived.”

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