Editing Vin Scully (section)

===Dodgers (1950–2016)===
{{Quote box|width=25em|bgcolor=|align=right|quote="It's time for Dodger baseball! Hi, everybody, and a very pleasant good afternoon/evening to you, wherever you may be."
 | source= — Scully's signature introduction to Dodger games.}}

====Brooklyn (1950–1957)====
After [[Ernie Harwell]] left the Dodgers' radio and television booths for the crosstown Giants before the [[1950 Brooklyn Dodgers season|1950 season]], Scully replaced Harwell, joining Barber and [[Connie Desmond]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.si.com/mlb/2015/07/17/vin-scully-1950-brooklyn-dodgers|title=Vin Scully on life and lessons from his rookie year with the 1950 Dodgers|first=David J.|last=Halberstam |magazine=[[Sports Illustrated]]|date=July 17, 2015}}</ref>

When Barber got into a salary dispute with [[World Series]] sponsor [[Gillette (brand)|Gillette]] prior to the [[1953 World Series]], Scully took Barber's spot in the [[Major League Baseball on NBC|NBC]] television booth, becoming the youngest person to broadcast a World Series (a record that stands to this day). After Barber subsequently left the Dodgers to work for the [[New York Yankees]] beginning in [[1954 New York Yankees season|1954]], Scully became the team's principal announcer, working with Desmond (1954–56), [[André Baruch]] (1954–55), [[Al Helfer]] (1955–57), and [[Jerry Doggett]] (1957). Scully was in the booth when the [[Brooklyn Dodgers]] won the [[1955 World Series]], their only championship in Brooklyn. He announced Dodgers games in Brooklyn until 1957, after which the club moved to Los Angeles.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Walker |first1=James |author2=Hiltner, Judith R. |title=How Vin Scully scored his Dodgers gig at 22 years old |url=https://www.salon.com/2022/08/13/how-vin-scully-scored-his-dodgers-gig-at-22-years-old_partner/ |website=[[Salon.com|Salon]] |date=August 13, 2022}}</ref>

====Los Angeles (1958–2016)====
Beginning with the [[1958 Los Angeles Dodgers season|1958 season]], Scully accompanied the Dodgers to their new location and quickly became popular in [[Southern California]]. During the Dodgers' first four seasons in Los Angeles, inexperienced baseball fans had difficulty following the action in the very large [[Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum]], and it soon became common for them to bring [[transistor radio]]s to the games to hear Scully and Jerry Doggett describe the action, a practice that continued even after the team moved to the much smaller [[Dodger Stadium]] for the [[1962 Los Angeles Dodgers season|1962 baseball season]]. Radio and television engineers often had difficulty compensating for the sound of Scully's play-by-play reverberating through the stands at Dodgers home games.<ref>{{cite magazine| url=https://www.si.com/vault/1964/05/04/606816/the-transistor-kid |title=The Transistor Kid | last=Creamer | first=Robert |magazine=[[Sports Illustrated]] | date=May 4, 1964 }}</ref>

In 1964, the [[1964 New York Yankees season|New York Yankees]] offered Scully the job to replace the recently fired [[Mel Allen]] as their lead play-by-play announcer.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://keitholbermann.mlblogs.com/archives/2009/05/vin_scully_voice_of_the_yankee.html |title=Vin Scully, Voice Of The Yankees |last=Olbermann |first=Keith |publisher=MLBlogs Network |date=May 18, 2009}}</ref> Scully declined the offer and chose to remain with the Dodgers. By [[1976 Los Angeles Dodgers season|1976]], his popularity in Los Angeles had become such that Dodger fans voted him the "most memorable personality" in the history of the franchise.<ref>{{cite news|title=The Moments|last=Hall|first=John|newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]]|date=May 27, 1976}}</ref>

[[File:Vin Scully photographed at event where he was named one of the Fathers of the Year, Los Angeles, 1979.jpg|thumb|Scully in 1979]]

Before 1966, local announcers exclusively called the World Series. Typically, the [[Gillette Company]], the [[Commissioner of Baseball]] and [[NBC]] television would choose the announcers, who would represent each of the teams that were in the World Series for the respective year. For the [[1966 World Series]], [[Curt Gowdy]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.timesunion.com/sports/article/Slim-pickings-to-rank-all-the-World-Series-4924542.php|title=Slim pickings to rank all the World Series analysts|last1=Dougherty|first1=Pete|date=October 24, 2013|newspaper=[[Times Union (Albany)|Times Union]]}}</ref> called half of each game before ceding the microphone to Vin Scully in [[1966 Los Angeles Dodgers season|Los Angeles]], and [[Chuck Thompson]] in [[1966 Baltimore Orioles season|Baltimore]]. Scully was not satisfied with the arrangement<ref>{{cite web |url=http://awfulannouncing.com/2016/the-year-vin-scully-was-unhappy-about-his-reduced-role-on-network-television-coverage-of-the-world-series.html|title=The Year Vin Scully was Unhappy About His Reduced Role on Network Television Coverage of the World Series|last1=Halberstam|first1=David J.|date=October 24, 2016|website=Awful Announcing}}</ref> as he said "What about the road? My fans won't be able to hear me." In Game 1 of the 1966 World Series, Scully called the first 4½ innings. When Gowdy inherited the announcing reins, Scully was so upset that he refused to say another word.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://curtsmith.mlblogs.com/gowdy-dead-at-86-lives-as-wyoming-cowboy-2e5da119ae0b |publisher=MLBlogs Network |title=Gowdy, dead at 86, Lives on as Wyoming Cowboy |date=February 20, 2006 |last=Smith |first=Curt}}</ref>

Unlike the typical modern style in which multiple sportscasters have an on-air conversation (usually with one functioning as [[Sports commentator|play-by-play announcer]] and another as [[color commentator]]), Scully and his broadcast partners Jerry Doggett (1956–87) and [[Ross Porter (sportscaster)|Ross Porter]] (1977–2004) each called their innings solo, rotating between radio and television, with Scully working the entire game except for the 3rd and 7th innings. When Doggett retired after the [[1987 Los Angeles Dodgers season|1987 season]], he was replaced by Hall-of-Fame Dodgers pitcher [[Don Drysdale]], who previously broadcast games for the [[California Angels]]. Drysdale died in his hotel room following a heart attack before a game against the [[1993 Montreal Expos season|Montreal Expos]] in [[1993 Los Angeles Dodgers season|1993]], resulting in a very difficult broadcast for Scully and Porter, who were told of the death but could not mention it on-air until Drysdale's family had been notified and the official announcement of the death made.<ref name="Dodgers' Death Brings out the Best">{{cite news | title = Dodgers' Death Brings Out the Best|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/07/07/sports/on-baseball-dodgers-deaths-bring-out-the-best.html |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] | first=Claire | last=Smith | date=July 7, 1993}}</ref> Scully announced the news of his death by saying, "Never have I been asked to make an announcement that hurts me as much as this one. And I say it to you as best I can with a broken heart." Former outfielder [[Rick Monday]] succeeded Drysdale in the Dodgers' broadcast crew.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.deseret.com/1993/7/8/19055203/monday-takes-mike-on-dodger-broadcasts|title=Monday Takes Mike on Dodger Broadcasts |newspaper=[[Deseret News]]|date=July 9, 1993}}</ref>

On August 28, 2015, the Dodgers announced—via a series of [[cue card]]s presented by comedian [[Jimmy Kimmel]] on the Dodger Stadium video board—that Scully would be back for the 2016 season, his 67th with the Dodgers.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.latimes.com/sports/dodgers/dodgersnow/la-sp-dn-dodgers-vin-scully-to-return-in-2016-20150828-story.html|title=Dodgers' Vin Scully to return in 2016|last=Shaikin|first=Bill|newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]]|date=August 28, 2015|access-date=August 29, 2015}}</ref> At a press conference August 29, Scully said 2016 would probably be his final year. "I mean, how much longer can you go on fooling people? So yeah, I would be saying, 'Dear God, if you give me next year, I will hang it up.{{'"}}<ref>{{cite news|last=Ciniglio|first=Tony|url=http://www.dailynews.com/sports/20150829/vin-scully-says-realistically-2016-will-be-the-last-one|title=Vin Scully says realistically 2016 will "be the last one"|newspaper=[[Los Angeles Daily News]]|date=August 29, 2015}}</ref>

Scully's final regular season game broadcast from Dodger Stadium occurred on September 25, 2016, as the Dodgers defeated the [[Colorado Rockies]] 4-3 on a walk-off home run by [[Charlie Culberson]] to clinch the National League West Division title. His final game was broadcast from San Francisco's [[Oracle Park]] on October 2, 2016.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2016/09/13/vin-scully-wont-call-any-dodgers-postseason-games/|title=Vin Scully Won't Call Any Dodgers Postseason Games|work=[[CBS News]]|date=September 13, 2016}}</ref>