In the aftermath of a day when baseball’s biggest trade in deadline history - the deal that sent Juan Soto to the Padres in exchange for six players - went down, the news of the beloved and iconic broadcaster’s death spread throughout the baseball world. Scully died on Tuesday, August 2, at the age of 94. Frick Award for broadcasters in 1982 remarkably, Scully worked longer after winning the award than before.
The Hall of Fame recognized him with the Ford C. With the exception of Robinson and perhaps Sandy Koufax, Scully looms larger in the franchise’s history than any of them. He covered 25 future Hall of Famers including those inducted as executives and managers during his tenure.
Scully called games for the first six of the Dodgers’ seven championships, and seasons in which Dodgers players won nine MVP awards, 12 Cy Youngs, and 15 Rookies of the Year. Vin was really a part of history /Gpg0JoHw0u Vin Scully ice skating with Jackie Robinson. In the Jaffe-Span household, Scully’s story - which he told again and again over the years, adding details, including the fact that the baby with whom Rachel Robinson was pregnant was Sharon Robinson - serves as a reminder that that not every story can be the cream of the crop that we should strive to bring our own work up to our highest standards while accepting that not all stories are created equal and that the ritual of sharing stories elevates them, creating a community of their audience and a continuity over the years. “There aren’t very many people who can say, ‘I raced Jackie Robinson on ice,'” he concluded. In it, Scully recalls the time he and baseball’s ultimate barrier-breaker raced on ice skates at a resort in the Catskill Mountains, despite the fact that Robinson, a California native who had starred in four sports at UCLA, had never been on skates Scully, a New York native, had plenty of experience. The story itself is one told by Vin Scully, who called Dodgers games for 67 years, from 1950 - when Dem Bums were in Brooklyn, the perennial underdogs in a three-team city - through 2016, when they were nearing the six-decade mark of their move to Los Angeles. In a marriage between two baseball media professionals, one a writer who was born into a lineage of Dodgers fans and the other an editor who spends her days seeking, weighing the merits of, and polishing stories for publication, it’s a line that has taken on a multilayered meaning. “They can’t all be ‘Ice Skating with Jackie Robinson‘” is a phrase often spoken in the downtown Brooklyn abode I share with my wife and daughter.
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