Tag: Vin Scully
Halby’s Morsels; TV vs Radio; When the networks ruled; Eric Nadel; Gowdy and Scully; Bill Russell
There’s video coverage of sports for just about every event today. Radio play-by-players paint games […]
From stars, Drysdale to Kell and Kaat to Hoyt, they evolved into the best sportscasters in America
A good number of Play-by-Play announcers were once high-level athletes. (This doesn’t include analysts […]
It’s August 2nd; A year ago today, the greatest sports play-by-player ever died; 100 of his colorful phrases
It’s exactly a year. On August 2, 2022, many in the nation were saddened […]
Evaluating the great national sports announcers, for both material and strength of voices
Reassessing America’s wonderful announcers and how they are graded. These are not necessarily the best […]
Curt Smith: “Vin Scully instantly hauls a story from the shelf” and “to navigate a sea of dead air”
In the last of this series, our interaction with the man who wrote the tome, […]
CBS’ retired Bob Fishman, a giant network TV sports director for 47 years, being honored by DGA
When Bob Fishman graduated Boston University he wanted to get into broadcasting, and when WCAU […]
An admirer of Vin Scully and a UNLV professor, tells how he met the Hall of Famer while a toddler
In August 2022, Jon Weisman, who has written beautiful essays on Vin Scully for his […]
Vin Scully named 2022 Sportscaster of the Year; He died in August at 94; Other notables also identified
SPORTSCASTER OF YEAR – 2022 Vin Scully is inarguably sports’ best ever voice. He had […]
Army-Navy; The durability of over 100 years of battling on the field; Names connected with Vin Scully
Fifty-nine years ago, last November 22nd, the President of the United States, John F. Kennedy, […]
Halby’s Morsels: Network responses; Larsen’s Perfect Game; Costas; Joe Davis is much better
Ian Eagle and Jim Nantz We’ll start when a long-timer check-in anonymous pro. “I […]
Remembering past voices, from Bill King and Marty Brennaman to playing greats, Bobby Orr to Randy Myers
With Bob Costas’ legacy back in the play-by-play booth for the ALDS between the Yankees […]
Advice to voices: Keep things simple; MLB language keeps changing; We lost the best play-by-player in Scully
After the passing of our cherished dean, Vin Scully, I thought first, of his […]