Tag: Vin Scully
Arthur Solomon’s ‘Best Ever’ Baseball And Football Announcers; Vin Scully and Mel Allen!
Telecasts of baseball games, once known as the “summer games,” but whose season now extends […]
Bob Elson owned Chicago; For many years he called White Sox Baseball; Loved Gambling too!
To celebrate the 2025 season, we continue Curt Smith’s series, Voices of Summer, on baseball’s […]
No byes this week; SF-Dallas Joe Montana, Vin Scully, Hank Stram and the late Dwight Clark
Thursday Night: Minnesota @ LA Rams (Amazon) 10/21/2024 Prime Subscribers Sunday Night: Dallas @ San […]
Remembering some of the top network and local voices when few were trained and sharp
Vin Scully on the Dodgers and Chick Hearn on Lakers The styles of the Lakers’ […]
Vin Scully, the Greatest Sports Voice in History, two years exactly after his death
On January 31, 2016, Vin Scully announced that he planned to retire from broadcasting after the […]
Willie Mays: From New York to San Francisco; Covered by Russ Hodges and admired by Vin Scully
The loss of Willie Mays It’s not unfair to infer that among two closest broadcasters […]
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 […]