Vincent Edward "Vin" Scully (born November 29, 1927) is a veteran broadcaster with the Los Angeles Dodgers. His 63 seasons with the Dodgers (1950 – present) is the longest of any broadcaster with a single team in professional sports history. At the age of 25, Scully became the youngest man to broadcast a World Series game. He broadcast the 1953 World Series.
From 1975 to 1982, Scully announced the televised National Football League games for CBS Sports. Scully also added to the network's tennis and PGA Tour golf coverage in the late 1970s and early 1980s. He was NBC television's lead baseball broadcaster from 1983 to 1989.
The first biography of Scully's life, "Pull Up a Chair: The Vin Scully Story", written by Curt Smith, was published in 2009.
As of 2012, Scully announces Dodgers' home games as well as road games in California, Arizona, and Colorado.
Scully received the Ford Frick Award from the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1982. He was honored with a Life Achievement Emmy Award for sportscasting and induction into the National Radio Hall of Fame in 1995. The National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association has named Scully as National Sportscaster of the Year three times (1965, 1978, 1982) and California Sportscaster of the Year 29 times. He was inducted into its Hall of Fame in 1991. He was the 1992 Hall of Fame inductee of the American Sportscasters Association (ASA), and was named both Sportscaster of the Century by the ASA (2000) and top sportscaster of all-time on its Top 50 list (2009). Scully was inducted into the NAB Broadcasting Hall of Fame in 2009.
Scully has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6675 Hollywood Blvd. Since 2001 the press box at Dodger Stadium has been named for Scully. A street near the team's former Dodgertown spring training facility in Vero Beach, Florida is named "Vin Scully Way".
Scully has been at some of Baseball’s most famous moments. He has made the calls that have since become part of the game's lore:
Chris Rose
Christopher Rose (born January 27, 1971 in Shaker Heights, Ohio) is a sportscaster with MLB Network as a studio host. He is also employed by the NFL Network. He was an employee for FOX covering the NFL, BCS games, and MLB games and has called Boxing on Fuel TV, a sister channel of Fox Sports. He hosted The Cheap Seats in 2010.
Rose is known as one of the hosts of "The Best Damn Sports Show Period", on Fox Sports Net.
Rose has been criticized for seeming to be too friendly with players he has interviewed during Fox's baseball coverage. For example, during the 2009 World Series, Rose called Derek Jeter of the New York Yankees "Jeets".
Rose was added the NFL Network crew on August 28, 2012. He will continue to host International Talk with Kevin Millar.
Karl Ravech
Karl Ravech (born January 19, 1965) is an American journalist. He is a personality for ESPN as an anchor for "SportsCenter" and "Baseball Tonight". He is the main "Baseball Tonight" host for ESPN.
He also covers college basketball and calls the Little League World Series for ABC and ESPN. He covered golf in the past.
Marv Albert
Marv Albert (born Marvin Philip Aufrichtig; June 12, 1941) is an American sportscaster. He is a member of the Basketball Hall of Fame. He is commonly called "the voice of basketball." From 1967–2004, he was also known as "the voice of the New York Knicks."
Albert has called the play-by-play of six Super Bowls, NBA Finals and seven Stanley Cup Finals.
On June 6, 2011, it was said that Albert was joining CBS Sports to call play-by-play for "The NFL on CBS".
Thom Brennaman
Thomas Wade "Thom" Brennaman (born September 12, 1963) is an American sportscaster.
He calls games for the Cincinnati Reds and MLB on Fox. He also called games for the Arizona Diamondbacks and the Chicago Cubs. He is a play by play announcer for the NFL on Fox and fills in for Joe Buck. He was the lead announcer for the BCS on Fox and college football on the Big Ten Network. He has also called college basketball games as well. He called games for FSN and CBS Radio and called Cotton Bowl games from 2000-2006. He is the son of radio announcer Marty Brennaman. Thom has called basketball games for the University of Cincinnati.
Wayne Larrivee
Wayne Larrivee is an American sportscaster. He is the voice of the Green Bay Packers. He has done play by play duties for the Big Ten Network, VERSUS, Westwood One/Dial Global, Chicago Bears, Chicago Bulls, Chicago Cubs, Kansas City Kings, Iowa Hawkeyes football, Missouri Tigers men's basketball, and ESPN Plus.
During a practice round of the 2012 Women's Golf US Open in Kohler, Wisconsin, he asked a fan that what club should be used because a golf ball was in the rough. A fan told him an iron or a wood. Larrivee then said, "You got that narrowed down." Then the fan said, "You rock like Bob Uecker."
Pat Summerall
George Allen "Pat" Summerall (May 10, 1930 – April 16, 2013) was a former American football player and television sportscaster.
Summerall was born on May 10, 1930 in Lake City, Florida.
He started color commentatory on CBS Sports before replacing Ray Scott as lead play by play. He was paired with Tom Brookshier and especially John Madden. Summerall and Madden moved to FOX in 1994 until 2001 when they were replaced by Joe Buck, Troy Aikman, and Cris Collinsworth.
He filled for Mike Patrick in 2004 who recovered from heart surgery. Summerall also called a few Cotton Bowls for Fox before retiring for good. During his time at CBS, Summerall called American Basketball Association, NBA, college basketball games, tennis and golf tournaments.
In 1990, Summerall vomited on an airplane after a Bears-Redskins matchup and was out for a long time. He was replaced by Verne Lundquist who filled in for Summerall who was assigned to call the Tennis U.S. Open.
In 1999 he was inducted into the American Sportscasters Association Hall of Fame.
Summerall died on April 16, 2013 from cardiac arrest which were complications of hip surgery in a hospital in Dallas, Texas, aged 82.
Kevin Harlan
Kevin Harlan (born June 21, 1960 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is an American television sports announcer.
He currently broadcasts NFL and college basketball games on CBS. He began working for CBS in 1998.
Hugh Cortazzi
Sir Arthur Henry Hugh Cortazzi (born 2 May 1924) is a British diplomat, businessman, academic, author and Japanologist.
He was Ambassador from the United Kingdom to Japan (1980–84), President of the Asiatic Society of Japan (1982–1983) and Chairman of the Japan Society of London (1985–95).
In 1947, Cortazzi joined the Foreign Office.
The British Foreign Office posted Cortazzi to:
Cortazzi was made Deputy Under-Secretary of State, in 1975. He became the British Ambassador to Japan in 1980. He spent the next four years in Tokyo.
Sir Hugh has written, edited, translated or contributed to books on the diplomatic history of Japan and the United Kingdom. He also wrote about Japanese history and culture.
In an overview derived from writings by and about Hugh Cortazzi, OCLC/WorldCatencompasses roughly 60+ works in 100+ publications in 4 languages and 4,000+ library holdings.
Len Kasper
Len Kasper (born January 21, 1971 in Mt. Pleasant, Michigan) is a broadcaster who calls televised games for the Chicago Cubs. He also called games for the Florida Marlins and the Milwaukee Brewers as well as a studio host for the Packers Radio Network.
Joan Osborne
Joan Elizabeth Osborne (born July 8 1962) is an American singer-songwriter who has had several hit songs. She is best known for her single "One of Us" (released in 1995). She was born near Louisville, Kentucky.
Gene Deckerhoff
Emerson Eugene "Gene" Deckerhoff, Jr. (born May 2, 1945) is the radio play-by-play announcer for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the Florida State Seminoles football, basketball, and baseball teams. He also called games for the United States Football League's Tampa Bay Bandits.
Mike Patrick