When I was a boy, I had a transistor radio in the shape of a box. It was brown and had a small silver dial for the volume and larger dial to tune the station. Home games were never on TV then. That little box was my lifeline to the #dodgers and baseball. Vin Scully .... (1/x)
... WAS baseball. The voice was omnipresent. At the ballpark people brought their radios so they could know what Vinnie was saying about the game they were seeing. You couldn't not hear it. The broadcast had a postgame feature in which Vin would read questions sent in by ...(2/x)
.... by fans. If he read your question, you won two tickets. One late night, long after I was supposed to be asleep, I heard THAT voice say MY name on the radio as he answered my question. I literally grabbed the box-radio and shook it, as if it were broken. I don't ... (3/x)
... remember the answer, because I probably didn't hear anything after he read my name. Fast-forward a couple of decades, and I got to know Vin a little. In 1999 I was assigned a story on #dodgers-#SFGiants memories at Candlestick in its last year. I walked into ... (4/x)
... his booth in LA and introduced myself. He grabbed a printout of something I wrote that day, his prep work for the broadcast, and said, "Ah, yes..I just read your story and..." I didn't hear another word for a spell. I was near 40, but might as well have been 11 .... (5/x)
....shaking my box transistor radio. I felt that way about every conversation, every handshake, I had with Vin. He was that regal, that important, to all of us who loved baseball and fed on his play-by-play and his stories. Every LA kid my age who followed the ... (6/x)
.... Dodgers had the same 45-rpm record of Vin's call of Sandy Koufax's perfect game on 9/9/65. "Twoooo and twoooo to Harvey Kueeeen." We all wore it out. I tell you all this to understand the pain you're going to hear and read over the coming days at news that Vin ... (7/x)
.... has died. He was our Kruk, Kuip, Flem and Jon in one voice.
So now you know. (8/x).
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So now you know. (8/x).
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