Vin Scully knocks it out of the park in Redondo Beach
Vin Scully having as much fun talkng about baseball as he did when he began six decades ago. Photo by Deidred Davidson Photography by Kevin Cody [Editor’s note: The following story originally appeared in Easy Reader on August 18, 2017, following his talk to Distinguished Speaker Series subscribers at the Redondo Beach Performing Arts Center.] When Vin Scully was a young boy living in a New York City walk-up, he listened to whatever sports game was being broadcast. ‘I would get a pillow and I would crawl under the radio, so that the loudspeaker and the roar of the crowd would wash all over me and I would just get goose bumps like you can’t believe. I knew that of all the things in this world that I wanted, I wanted to be that fella saying, whatever, home run, or touchdown. It just really got to me.” “That’s why, if you’ve ever heard me announce a game, you’ll notice that when the crowd roars, I stay quiet. I walk to the back of the booth and remember what it was like listening to games as a young boy,” Scully told Distinguished Speaker subscribers during his talk last Wednesday at the Redondo Beach Performing Arts Center. Whatever the reason for Scully retiring last year, at age…
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