Composer John Williams had the baton for the national anthem and all-time great southpaws Sandy Koufax and Clayton Kershaw, among others, were on hand to pay tribute.Scully and his wife were escorted to the dugout on a blue carpet ringed with Dodgers.
Scully is being recognized this week for his masterful life of broadcasting baseball games. But in actuality, Scully is being honored for being the storyteller who would artfully weave pieces of the players lives into the games we watched and listened to, making the experience a rich and memorable one.
It's seems like yesterday I was a 12-year old Little Leaguer listening to Scully on the radio call the game on summer nights in Bell Gardens, California.
Many a summer night I fell asleep listening to Scully paint wonderful pictures of the exploits of players like Koufax, Don Drysdale, John Roseboro, Maury Wills, Steve Garvey, Wes Parker, Ron Cey, Manny Mota, Willie Davis and Tommie Davis, to name a few.
The pictures Scully painted gave me a vivid image of the games being played in Chavez Ravine.
That was a lifetime ago, but it seems like yesterday.
Scully will broadcast these last Dodgers home games this weekend then wrap up his career calling the Dodgers versus Giants in the city by the bay next week.
Vin, thanks for the memories.
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