Editing Vin Scully (section)

===Fordham and CBS Radio===
After serving in the [[United States Navy]] for two years, Scully began his career as a student broadcaster and journalist at [[Fordham University]], where he majored in English.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2016/04/the-rare-vin-scully/479193/|magazine=[[The Atlantic]]|title=The Rare Vin Scully|author=Orfalea, Gregory|date=April 24, 2016|quote=First and foremost comes his love of language, born of being a Literature major at Fordham.}}</ref> While at Fordham, he helped found its [[Frequency modulation|FM]] radio station [[WFUV]] (which now presents a Vin Scully Lifetime Achievement Award each year), was assistant sports editor for Volume 28 of ''[[The Fordham Ram]]'' his senior year, sang in a [[barbershop quartet]], played [[center fielder|center field]] for the [[Fordham Rams baseball]] team,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://sportzedge.com/2013/08/31/vin-scully-was-at-yale-field-not-to-broadcast-but-to-play-against-a-team-with-a-future-president/ | title= Vin Scully was at Yale, not to broadcast, but to play against future president| date= September 16, 2023}}</ref> called radio broadcasts for Rams baseball, [[Fordham Rams football|football]], and [[Fordham Rams men's basketball|basketball]], earned a degree, and sent about 150 letters to stations along the [[East Coast of the United States|Eastern seaboard]]. He received only one response, from [[CBS Radio News|CBS Radio]] affiliate [[WTOP-FM|WTOP]] in Washington, D.C., which hired him as a fill-in.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://wtop.com/sports/2015/10/dodgers-vin-scully-talks-legendary-career-lucky-break-at-wtop-radio/|title = Dodgers' Vin Scully talks legendary career, lucky break at WTOP Radio |work=[[WTOP-FM|WTOP]] |date = October 12, 2015}}</ref>

[[Red Barber]], the sports director of the CBS Radio Network, recruited Scully for its [[college football]] coverage. Scully impressed his boss with his coverage of a November 1949 [[1949 Maryland Terrapins football team|University of Maryland]] versus [[1949 Boston University Terriers football team|Boston University]] football game from frigid [[Fenway Park]] in Boston, despite having to do so from the stadium roof. Expecting an enclosed press box, Scully had left his coat and gloves at his hotel, but never mentioned his discomfort on the air; the game proved an exciting affair that attracted Barber to ask him for further assignments.<ref>{{cite news |date=November 7, 2011 |title=The day Vin Scully came in from the cold|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2009-jul-27-sp-crowe27-story.html |access-date=December 7, 2021 |work= [[Los Angeles Times]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111107032908/http://articles.latimes.com/2009/jul/27/sports/sp-crowe27 |archive-date=November 7, 2011 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2009-jul-27-sp-crowe27-story.html|title=The day Vin Scully came in from the cold|last=Crowe|first=Jerry|newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]]|date=July 27, 2009}}</ref> Barber mentored Scully, and Scully would follow Barber's advice on being an impartial announcer without blatant "homer" connections. When the Dodgers moved to Los Angeles, management had approached Scully about taking a pro-Dodger tone now that the team was the only one in its city (as the minor league Los Angeles teams had done) to which Scully responded weeks later by saying he would stick to objective and factual coverage.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://vault.si.com/vault/1964/05/04/the-transistor-kid | title=How Vin Scully Became a Part of the California Freeways |magazine=[[Sports Illustrated]] |author=Creamer, Robert |date=May 4, 1964}}</ref>