Longtime Los Angeles Dodgers broadcaster Vin Scully has passed away, the team announced.

Longtime Los Angeles Dodgers broadcaster Vin Scully has passed away, the team announced. He was 94.
"He was the voice of the Dodgers, and so much more. He was their conscience, their poet laureate, capturing their beauty and chronicling their glory from Jackie Robinson to Sandy Koufax, Kirk Gibson to Clayton Kershaw. Vin Scully was the heartbeat of the Dodgers – and in so many ways, the heartbeat of all of Los Angeles," the team said in a statement.
"Vin Scully was the heartbeat of the Dodgers -- and in so many ways, the hearbeat of all of Los Angeles.
— Los Angeles Dodgers (@Dodgers) August 3, 2022
Scully became a baseball fan at the age of 8 and began his broadcasting career at Fordham University after spending two years in the Navy. He called football and basketball games, and also played baseball, even playing a game against future president George H.W. Bush, who was on Yale University’s baseball team.
He joined the Dodgers radio and television booths in the 1950 season, when they were still in Brooklyn. Scully came with the Dodgers to Los Angeles in 1958 and stayed with the club until his retirement in 2016.
He also worked national broadcasts for Major League Baseball, the NFL, the PGA Tour and also worked for NBC Sports from 1983-89.
Scully's most famous NFL call came with CBS in 1982, as he was on play-by-play for Joe Montana's touchdown pass to Dwight Clark in the NFC Championship game.
Also while with CBS, Scully was part of the broadcast team tasked with calling The Masters from 1975-82.
Scully was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame as the Ford C. Frick Award winner in 1982 and received the Commissioner's Historic Achievement Award from Bud Selig in 2014.
Moreover, the iconic broadcaster also has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2016.
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