Tag: Vin Scully
NHL has lost a cluster of voices; The Vin Scully/Ray Scott, Koufax/Kaat ’65 Series; Broadcast news and notes
The NHL has suffered a tough stretch, losing some of its best announcers ever. Locally, […]
Vin Scully: From voices to network bosses to players, these folks played a role in his enormous success
Allow me to identify the names of those who were in some […]
Westwood One’s surprise renewal of the NCAA Tourney; Scully; Cefalo; Fox’ MLB; SiriusXM’s NBA Channel
NCAA Tournament In a surprising move, the NCAA announced that it has renewed its […]
Southern California’s top all-time play-by-play voices; It’s a who’s who list of some of the best ever!
When the Dodgers moved from Brooklyn to Southern California in 1958, Los Angeles […]
Halby’s Morsels: Changes behind the mic; Real heroes; Scully; Uecker; Amazon voices and Ratings
As reported here earlier, Chris Webber has told friends and colleagues that he thinks his […]
Halby’s Morsels: A busy winter of MLB announcer changes; Spring Training gave Scully a large canvas
The Hot Stove League baseball season is always full of trade talk, rumors and conjecture. […]
Historic Calls, one-by-one: Hank Aaron’s 714th and 715th; Brennaman, Gowdy, Hamilton and Scully
We lost Hank Aaron this week at age 86. Although the bare numbers don’t support […]
Halby’s Morsels: Vin Scully and boss Walter O’Malley; 50 years of MNF; Keith Jackson; Ernie Harwell
Vin Scully has often said that baseball broadcast pioneer Red Barber was like a […]
Vin Scully talks about this season, the broadcasts and more; Says twin bills should be 9 and 7 innings
This week, I had a chance to catch up with icon Vin Scully who […]
The Brooklyn Dodgers played their last game in ’57; Vin Scully called it; Nothing official was said about LA
I’m sure this has happened to you from time to time, particularly when trying […]
Halby’s Morsels: Age precautions; Orioles shut down their regulars; MLB and NBA broadcasts; War stories
Yes, ladies and gentlemen, there is a restart. But do we know what to […]
Didn’t go to Syracuse? Over 150 sports voices went to colleges elsewhere and did just fine too
It’s conventional knowledge. Syracuse University is the Harvard or Yale for future sports broadcasters. […]