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1950-2022
Our Seventy-second Year
The Oldest Continuously Active Contest in Sport
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"A very pleasant good
evening to you wherever
you may be."
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Vin Scully, Dodger
broadcaster from 1950 to
2016, dies at 94; called
games for Jackie
Robinson, Hodges,
Snider, Sandy Koufax,
Garvey, Valenzuela, Kirk
Gibson, Hershiser, and
Kershaw; taught baseball
to all Southern
California and made the
team beloved; "If you
have a sombrero, throw
it to the sky!"
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Vin Scully died last week, and while his
passing saddens all who loved his
relaxed, pull-up-a-chair
and-enjoy-the-afternoon style, it is
hoped here that his friendly,
conversational, unbiased delivery will
not disappear in the frantic stat-mad
nattering we hear so much in sports
announcing these days. Some Scully
quotes: "Statistics are used much like a
drunk uses a lamppost: for support, not
illumination." "(Roberto) Clemente could
field the ball in New York and throw out
a guy in Pennsylvania." "It's a mere
moment in a man's life between an
All-Star Game and an old-timer's game."
Dodger pitcher Jerry Reuss was on the
mound one time at Dodger Stadium, "[and]
I can hear on all the radios by his
cadence, his inflection, that Vinny was
in the middle of a story." Reuss then
stepped off the rubber and fussed with
the rosin bag until Scully got his point
out, and Vin then continued, "Now Reuss
is ready to deliver." Above, a limping
Kirk Gibson hits a walk-off homer off
A's closer Dennis Eckersley in the
bottom of the 9th in Game 1 of the 1988
World Series, of which Scully said, "In
a year of the improbable, the impossible
has happened!" (Photo: Getty Images)
Congratulations to our Weekly
Prize winner Bruce Miller
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2022 Weekly Contest
Winners
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Week Ending |
Member |
Average |
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08/07 |
Bruce Miller |
312 |
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07/31 |
Ceci Glidden |
307 |
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07/24 |
Sandy Sparks |
368 |
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07/17 |
Stephanie Wiltman |
358 |
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07/10 |
Ceci Glidden |
321 |
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07/03 |
Stephanie Wiltman |
335 |
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06/26 |
Lewis Goldman |
359 |
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06/19 |
Sidney Smith |
368 |
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06/12 |
Mike Kucera |
345 |
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06/05 |
Dick Bottelli |
310 |
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05/29 |
James Wiltman |
371 |
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05/22 |
Lee Miringoff |
368 |
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