Vin Scully was on the microphone when it went through Buckner three decades ago. He called it when Hank passed the Babe, too, and when Kirk Gibson made the impossible happen in '88. Over the last 67 years, the inimitable Los Angeles Dodgers broadcaster has also narrated 20 no-hitters and three perfect games.
The one call that sticks out for the 88-year-old, though?
After 67 years as the voice of the Dodgers, what's one of Vin Scully's favorite calls?
— FOX Sports (@FOXSports) May 20, 2016
He explains.https://t.co/bQkp9h4jFZ
For posterity's sake, here's his response in full:
When the Dodgers won in Brooklyn, their only World Series. I had lived with the frustration of the team from 1950 through '54, so when they won it in '55 - and to know what it meant to the borough; and to know what it meant to the players, who had been so frustrated - that was a very important call. And it was very simple. All I said was, "Ladies and gentlemen, the Brooklyn Dodgers are the champions of the world." And people said to me that winter, "How could you have been so calm?" And to be honest, I could not have said another word. I would have broken down and cried.
