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114TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION S. CON. RES. 52 

Honoring Vincent Edward ‘‘Vin’’ Scully, the United States baseball broadcaster who has magnificently served as the play-by-play announcer for 

the Brooklyn and Los Angeles Dodgers for 67 Major League Baseball 

seasons since 1950. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016 

Mrs. FEINSTEIN (for herself and Mrs. BOXER) submitted the following 

concurrent resolution; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary 

CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 

Honoring Vincent Edward ‘‘Vin’’ Scully, the United States 

baseball broadcaster who has magnificently served as 

the play-by-play announcer for the Brooklyn and Los 

Angeles Dodgers for 67 Major League Baseball seasons 

since 1950. 

Whereas Vincent Edward ‘‘Vin’’ Scully was born in the 

Bronx, New York, on November 29, 1927; 

Whereas Vin Scully was raised in the Washington Heights 

neighborhood of Manhattan, New York; 

Whereas when Vin Scully was 8 years old he decided he 

wanted to become a sports announcer; 


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Whereas in 1950, at the age of 22, Vin Scully joined the 

radio and television broadcast team for the Brooklyn 

Dodgers; 

Whereas in 1953, at the age of 25, Vin Scully became the 

youngest individual to announce the broadcast of a World 

Series game; 

Whereas Vin Scully announced Brooklyn Dodgers’ games 

through 1957, after which he moved with the Dodgers to 

Los Angeles as the first team in Major League Baseball 

to play in Southern California; 

Whereas Vin Scully is credited with teaching the game of 

baseball to Los Angeles; 

Whereas since 1950, Vin Scully has announced more than 

9,000 Major League Baseball games and almost 1⁄2 of all 

Los Angeles Dodgers games ever played; 

Whereas Vin Scully has announced numerous iconic moments 

in baseball history, including— 

(1) on September 9, 1965, Vin Scully announced 

Los Angeles Dodgers’ pitcher Sandy Koufax’s perfect 

game against the Chicago Cubs, concluding, ‘‘Sandy 

Koufax, whose name will always remind you of strikeouts, did it with a flourish. He struck out the last 6 consecutive batters. So when he wrote his name in capital 

letters in the record book, that ‘K’ stands out more than 

the ‘oufax’.’’; 

(2) on April 8, 1974, Vin Scully called the 715th 

homerun by Hank Aaron to break Babe Ruth’s longstanding homerun record, stating, ‘‘What a marvelous 

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ting a standing ovation in the Deep South for breaking 

a record of an all-time baseball idol. And it is a great moment for all of us, and particularly for Henry Aaron.’’; 

and 

(3) on October 15, 1988, during Game 1 of the 

1988 World Series at Dodger Stadium, Vin Scully announced a game-winning, pinch hit homerun by injured 

Los Angeles Dodger Kirk Gibson against Oakland Athletics’ reliever Dennis Eckersley, declaring, ‘‘High fly ball 

into right field, she is gone! . . . In a year that has been 

so improbable, the impossible has happened.’’; 

Whereas Vin Scully has described the exploits of some of 

baseball’s all-time greats, including Jackie Robinson, Roy 

Campanella, Sandy Koufax, Don Drysdale, Duke Snider, 

Don Sutton, Fernando Valenzuela, Tommy Lasorda, Orel 

Hershiser, Mike Piazza, and Clayton Kershaw, among 

many others; 

Whereas Vin Scully has been nicknamed ‘‘The Shakespeare 

of Baseball’’, ‘‘The Voice of the Dodgers’’, and ‘‘The 

Voice of Summer’’; 

Whereas Vin Scully has been awarded the honors of— 

(1) National Sportscaster of the Year from the National Sports Media Association in 1965, 1978, and 

1982; 

(2) Ford Frick Award from the National Baseball 

Hall of Fame in 1982; 

(3) induction into the National Sports Media Association Hall of Fame in 1991; 

(4) induction into the American Sportscasters Association Hall of Fame in 1992; 

(5) Life Achievement Emmy Award for Sportscasting in 1995; 


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(6) induction into the National Radio Hall of Fame 

in 1995; 

(7) Sportscaster of the Century from the American 

Sportscasters Association in 2000; 

(8) induction into the California Sports Hall of 

Fame in 2008; 

(9) induction into the National Association of 

Broadcasters Broadcasting Hall of Fame in 2009; 

(10) Ambassador Award of Excellence from the Los 

Angeles Sports & Entertainment Commission in 2009; 

(11) Top Sportscaster of All-Time from the American Sportscasters Association in 2009; 

(12) Baseball Commissioner’s Historic Achievement 

Award in 2014; and 

(13) 32-time California Sportscaster of the Year; 

Whereas, on September 23, 2016, during a pregame ceremony at Dodgers Stadium to honor Vin Scully for his 

iconic life and contributions, he was likened to Norman 

Rockwell and film character George Bailey; and 

Whereas Vin Scully will announce his final game on October 

2, 2016, when the Los Angeles Dodgers visit the San 

Francisco Giants: Now, therefore, be it 

1 Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives 

2 concurring), That Congress— 

3 (1) honors the life and legendary career of Vin4 cent Edward ‘‘Vin’’ Scully, whose character, artistry, 

5 and storytelling as an announcer for the Brooklyn 

6 and Los Angeles Dodgers has set the standard for 

7 sports announcing; and 


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1 (2) wishes Vin Scully a fulfilling retirement as 

2 he bids farewell to the broadcast booth following the 

3 2016 Major League Baseball season. 

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