Editing Vin Scully (section)

==Early life==
Born in [[the Bronx]], Scully grew up in the [[Washington Heights, Manhattan|Washington Heights]] section of [[Manhattan]].<ref name=NYTimes>{{cite news |author=Sandomir, Richard. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/05/sports/baseball/05scully.html |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |title=Daffy Days of Brooklyn Return for Vin Scully |date=October 5, 2006}}</ref> His father, Vincent Aloysius Scully, was a silk salesman; his mother, Bridget (née Freehill), was a homemaker.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dRY6EAAAQBAJ&dq=bridget+Freehill+Scully&pg=PT81 | title=Memories from the Microphone: A Century of Baseball Broadcasting | isbn=9781642506761 | last1=Smith | first1=Curt | date=August 3, 2021 | publisher=Mango Media }}</ref> He was of Irish descent. His biological father died of [[pneumonia]] when Scully was four, and his mother later married an English merchant sailor named Allan Reeve, whom Scully considered "my dad".<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-jun-18-sp-scully18-story.html|title=Dodgers broadcaster ached to know his real father, but that was soothed by his stepdad|last=Henson|first=Steve|date=June 18, 2006|newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]]}}</ref> He had one sibling, a younger sister who died of brain cancer in 2002, aged 67. Scully attended [[Fordham Preparatory School]] in the Bronx.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mlb.com/cut4/on-vin-scully-s-90th-birthday-let-s-celebrate-a-great-moment-from-every-one-of-h|title=On Vin Scully's 90th birthday, let's celebrate a great moment from every one of his decades|website=[[Major League Baseball|MLB.com]]|date=November 29, 2017 }}</ref> He worked delivering beer and mail, pushing garment racks and cleaning silver in the basement of the [[Hotel Pennsylvania|Pennsylvania Hotel]] in New York City.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hotelpenn.com/|title=Pennsylvania Hotel|archive-date=September 29, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140929185308/http://www.hotelpenn.com/|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Scully discovered his love of baseball at age eight when he saw the results of the second game of the [[1936 World Series]] at a laundromat and felt a pang of sympathy for the badly defeated [[History of the New York Giants (baseball)|New York Giants]], who had lost the game 18–4 to the [[New York Yankees]]. Since he lived near the [[Polo Grounds]] and because he was a member of the [[Police Athletic League of New York City|NYC Police Athletic League]] and [[Catholic Youth Organization]], he was able to attend games for free and became a "very big Giants fan".<ref name="lat-wontcall">{{cite news|url=http://www.latimes.com/sports/dodgers/la-sp-dodgers-vin-scully-20160913-snap-story.html|title=Vin Scully won't call Dodgers playoff games|last=Shaikin|first=Bill|date=September 13, 2016|newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]]}}</ref>