In the 1990s, it was Mike Piazza and Hideo Nomo, followed by Kershaw, Manny Ramirez and Yasiel Puig in the 21st century. He began in the 1950s era of Pee Wee Reese and Jackie Robinson, on to the 1960s with Don Drysdale and Sandy Koufax, into the 1970s with Steve Garvey and Don Sutton, and through the 1980s with Orel Hershiser and Fernando Valenzuela. I’m grateful and thankful I got to know him as well as I did.”Īs the longest tenured broadcaster with a single team in pro sports history, Scully saw it all and called it all. “He was the best there ever was,” pitcher Clayton Kershaw said after the Dodgers' game in San Francisco.
Scully died at his home in the Hidden Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles, the team announced after being informed by family members. Hall of Fame broadcaster Vin Scully, whose dulcet tones provided the soundtrack of summer while entertaining and informing Dodgers fans in Brooklyn and Los Angeles for 67 years, died Tuesday night.