Download Pull Up a Chair: The Vin Scully Story AudioBook Free
In 1950, Vin Scully broadcast his first major little league football game for the then--Brooklyn Dodgers. Practically sixty years later he still invites a listener to ''move up a chair,'' completing a record fifty-ninth consecutive year of play-by-play.
Recruited and mentored by the famous Red Barber, the brand new York-born Scully moved with the Dodgers to Los Angeles in early 1958. His instantly recognizable voice has identified players from Duke Snider to Orel Hershiser to Manny Ramirez, with hundreds among.
At onetime or another, Scully has aired NBC Television's Game of the Week, twelve All-Star Video games, eighteen no-hitters, twenty-five World Series, and network football, golf, and playing golf. He has made every sportscasting Hall of Popularity; received a Lifetime Emmy Achievement honor and a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Popularity; and been voted ''most memorable [L.A. Dodgers] franchise personality.'' In 2000, the American Sportscasters Association named Scully the Sportscaster of the 20th Century.
This long overdue biography of Vin Scully is written by Curt Smith, called 'the voice of authority on football broadcasting' (USA Today). Scully opens each broadcast by wishing listeners, ''A very pleasant good day.'' Move Up a Seat provides a reader with the same.
