LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles Dodgers They are honoring Vin Scully, the legendary broadcaster by wearing a commemorative patch in black with a microphone and “Vin”, on their uniforms.
Scully, who had a 67-year broadcasting career in Los Angeles and Brooklyn, made him the longest-tenured sports broadcaster with only one team. He passed away Tuesday night at the age 94.
The Dodgers will be away until Friday, but they will honor Scully that night with a pregame tribute.
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Dodgers and San Francisco Giants Both players gathered at the baselines to view a pregame tribute video to Scully before Wednesday’s Oracle Park game. There was also the Los Angeles Angels Scully was honored with a moment of silence before the home match against the Oakland Athletics.
On Wednesday, Scully was remembered throughout L.A. by his fans. Many people recalled how his voice soothed them as children.
“It was like listening on the radio to your favorite song all the time, he always was in the background,” George Esteves, a Sierra Madre 58-year old, said.
Mitch Hammontree (a 68-year old fan from Placentia) added that “He painted such pictures, you didn’t need a TV.”
Other people remembered Scully as a bridge between generations, such as Kenneth Walls (29 years old) from South Los Angeles, who tuned in with his grandfather, a 90-year-old.
Walls said, “He has been a part my life since I was conceived.” It’s important to have the chance to share this moment together with fans. It’s better to celebrate such a beautiful, long-lived life in celebration.
A tiny, green-colored bird flew among the flowers and landed on a Dodgers cap.
“Look, it’s Vinny!” A woman exclaimed.
Diana Gutierrez, Downey, brought her 8-year old grandson to see the collection of mementos. They included a Dodgers serape in blue and white, a baseball-shaped balloon and baseballs on top of the D. The V was hidden under the welcome sign at 1000 Vin Scully Ave.
“My grandson said this morning that he was such a nice person to everyone Gutierrez. “I said, “Absolutely, that was definitely a good memory and that’s something to celebrate in Los Angeles .”’
Along Hollywood Boulevard, tourists and locals paused at Scully’s flower-strewn star on the Walk of Fame located two doors down from another legend, Musso & Frank Grill. An arrangement of roses and other flowers in Dodgers colours was hung by a delivery man on a wooden easel.
The weekday lunch crowd was already lining up at Philippe The Original, just a few blocks from the stadium.
“I was almost in tears,” 75-year-old Daniel Mirgil from Pomona said after hearing that Scully had passed away. “We used our transistor radio to listen to him.”
Starting Wednesday night, the Los Angeles City Hall will glow in blue ESPN2 will re-air Game 1 of 1988 World Series. It features Scully’s unforgettable call of Kirk Gibson’s walk-off, pinch-hit home run that won the Dodgers victory over the Reds. Oakland Athletics.
Scully, who is self-effacing, would have enjoyed the tributes but would have probably found them “a little embarrassing” which is how he described 2016’s hoopla surrounding retirement.
He stated, “I have never wanted to get in front of the ball,” then.
Moments were observed of silence in Scully’s honour around the majors on Wednesday.
Hammontree declared, “It is the end of an age.” “You think that he’s going live forever. Of course, his legacy will.
This report was contributed by The Associated Press.