I play these reruns to hear Vin's voice, they help me go to sleep..... I'm 50 years old now and Vin was part of my childhood and adult life. R.I.P. Vin
Normally I listen to some sleep music but during the spring I'll just find a random dodger game called by Vin to put me to sleep, love you Vin. May Him and my Dad RIP both making me absolutely love the sport
Greatest voice in sports history. It's 1958, and I have a transistor radio under my pillow. Vinny rocked me to sleep every summer night of my childhood. I miss Vinny's live voice.
Vin is dead but some of these guys are still playing. What a game. This is a great sample game of Scully’s later “eminence grise” style. He makes some snarky comments (for example, player not practicing like they used to, and the classic “as they always do” spoken in a somewhat jaded tone when the benches and bullpens empty during the first inning) that he wouldn’t have made 20 years earlier. It’s also a great example of his “doubleheader” style, where he was doing both tv and radio. And perhaps most salient is the Alvin Dark/Jackie Robinson story told over two innings. Great example of the baseball gods enabling him to extend the story, as well as his ability to keep all the balls of the story in the air over time, if you’ll pardon the expression. And the timbre and enunciation of his voice, trained for radio, is such an unalloyed pleasure.
It took until recent years for the dodgers to finally take a page out of the old giants book and not take the season seriously and just make sure they’re ready and healthy for October. That being said winning those division battles vs the giants was fun when it was all we had