Vin Scully Returning for 63rd Season with Dodgers
By Editorial Staff
If you thought this would be Vin Scully’s final season in the broadcast booth for the Los Angeles Dodgers, the 83 year old has 2 words for you.
Forget it.
During the top of the 6th inning of last night’s Rockies-Dodgers game, Scully announced that he would be returning in 2012 for his 63rd season.
"“I don’t want to make a big deal out of it, you and I have been friends for a long time,” Scully said. “But after a lot of soul searching and a few prayers, we’ve decided that we will come back with the Dodgers for next year. God’s been awfully good to me, allowing me to do the things I love to do. I asked him one more year at least and he said OK.”"
Scully began announcing games for the then Brooklyn Dodgers in 1950, and his 62 year career is the longest of any sports broadcaster.
Scully, who was inducted into the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame in 1982, said that after much consideration, he and his wife made the decision a week ago.
Along with baseball, Scully called National Football League games for CBS from 1975 to 1982. In his last year with the network, Scully made a memorable call during the play known simply as “The Catch”, Dwight Clark’s TD reception that vaulted the 49er’s into Super Bowl XVI.
Scully was also a regular on NBC’s Saturday Game of the Week from 1983 to 1989. In all, Scully called 25 World Series, 12 All-Star Games, 19 no-hitters and the perfect games of Sandy Koufax, Tom Browning and Dennis Martinez.
It was recommended that Scully make the announcement of his return on air. But Scully was adamant in the fact that he was against making a big deal out of the declaration, not wanting to, in his words, “be a Brett Favre or whoever else”.
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