Vin Scully, the voice of the Los Angeles Dodgers for more than 60 years, died on Tuesday.
Scully’s death was announced on social media by the Dodgers, who referred to him as “the heartbeat of the Dodgers.”
“He was the voice of the Dodgers, and so much more. He was their conscience, their poet laureate, capturing their beauty and chronicling their glory from Jackie Robinson to Sandy Koufax, Kirk Gibson to Clayton Kershaw,” the organization wrote.
Vincent Edward Scully was born in the Bronx, New York, on November 29, 1927. He began his illustrious career at Fordham University, where he worked on the school newspaper and the college radio station.
In the 1950s, he joined the then-Brooklyn Dodgers and followed them to the West Coast, where he became synonymous with Dodgers baseball for the next 67 seasons.
