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September 09, 2011
Vin Scully Remembers His Greatest Calls: During 62 seasons with the Dodgers, Scully has witnessed firsthand an unfathomable enormity of baseball. But even if we eschew the taken-for-granted superlatives, it's still remarkable to plumb the depths of that enormity, and draw to the surface the moments that defined his career...
posted by tommytrump to baseball at 11:38 PM - 2 comments
It will be a VERY sad day when the greatest sports announcer of all time decides to hang up the microphone.
The Sandy Koufax perfect game is probably the all-time greatest baseball call I've heard (and will ever hear). I wish I could have listened to this on the radio live back when it happened.
I can't imagine any other announcer coming up with lines like this on the fly:
"And there's 29,000 people in the ballpark and a million butterflies."
"A lot of people in the ballpark now are starting to see the pitches with their hearts."
"He struck out the last six consecutive batters. So when he wrote his name in capital letters in the record books, that "K" stands out even more than the O-U-F-A-X."
posted by grum@work at 09:23 AM on September 11, 2011
Enormity, huh? Must have been horrible.