Vin Scully towards the end of his career on Sep 24, 2016 meets with the news media at a press conference to take questions about his long and glorious career (AP News file photo)

By Michael Duca and Morris Phillips

SAN FRANCISCO–Long time Los Angeles Dodgers broadcaster Vin Scully has passed away at the age of 94 years old. Scully broadcasted Dodger baseball from 1950-2016. Scully had the opportunity to break in with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1950 with Hall of Fame broadcaster Red Barber and Connie Desmond. Scully replaced another Hall of Fame broadcaster Ernie Harwell who left to call New York Giants games Harwell would later gain his fame as a Detroit Tigers broadcaster.

Scully replaced Red Barber in 1953 on the Dodgers TV broadcasts when Barber got into a contract dispute with sponsor Gillette. Scully upon taking the job became the youngest broadcaster to call a World Series that year a record that still stands today. After Barber left to call New York Yankee games in 1954 Scully became the team’s number one announcer. Scully called Dodger games in Brooklyn until 1957.

The Brooklyn Dodgers moved from New York at the end of the 57 season and Scully left to call Dodger games in their new home in Los Angeles at the Los Angeles Coliseum. The Dodgers stayed at the Los Angeles Coliseum where Scully called games there from 1957 until the Dodgers moved into Dodgers Stadium in 1962.

Longtime Yankee broadcaster Mel Allen got fired in 1964 and Scully was offered the job which he declined to remain in Los Angeles as the Dodgers broadcaster and a chance to move back to New York. Los Angeles would remain Vin’s home for the rest of his broadcast career until his retirement in 2016. Scully also called the NFL on CBS Sports from 1975-1982.

Amongst some of Scully’s achievements he was inducted into the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame in 1982, he won the Commissioners Achievement Award in 2014, Presidential Freedom Award (2016), The Hollywood Walk of Fame, and had his Dodgers microphone retired, he famously called Sandy Koufax’s no hitters, Kirk Gibson famous World Series home run in 1988, and one of the early TV broadcasts of the 1965 World Series that went seven games. In game seven Koufax closed out the Minnesota Twins to win the World Series for the Dodgers.