Scully opens each broadcast by wishing listeners, 'A very pleasant good afternoon.' Pull Up a Chair will provide a reader with the same.The consensus is not wrong about this book. Curt Smith-to USA Today, 'The voice of authority on baseball broadcasting'-is the ideal man to write it. Dodgers] franchise personality.' In 2000, the American Sportscasters Association named Scully the Sportscaster of the 20th Century.The first biography of Vin Scully is long overdue.

He has made every sportscasting Hall of Fame received a Lifetime Emmy Achievement award and a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and been voted 'most memorable L.A. His instantly recognizable voice has described players from Duke Snider to Orel Hershiser to Manny Ramirez, with hundreds in between.At one time or another, Scully has aired NBC Television's Game of the Week, twelve All-Star Games, eighteen no-hitters, twenty-five World Series, and network football, golf, and tennis. Recruited and mentored by the legendary Red Barber, the New York-born Scully moved with the Dodgers to Los Angeles in early 1958. Nearly sixty years later he still invites a listener to 'pull up a chair,' completing a record fifty-ninth consecutive year of play-by-play.

In 1950, Vin Scully broadcast his first major league baseball game for the then-Brooklyn Dodgers. Pull Up a Chair will provide a reader with the same.', Scully opens each broadcast by wishing listeners, A very pleasant good afternoon. Curt Smith-to USA Today, The voice of authority on baseball broadcasting-is the ideal man to write it. In 2000, the American Sportscasters Association named Scully the Sportscaster of the 20th Century.The first biography of Vin Scully is long overdue. He has made every sportscasting Hall of Fame received a Lifetime Emmy Achievement award and a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and been voted most memorableL.A.

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Pull Up a Chair by Curt Smith