It is not just fans of the Los Angeles Dodgers who are mourning the loss of legendary broadcaster Vin Scully, but all of baseball.
, but it might be what he didn't say that also had a tremendous impact. It was the half-minute of silence.
"And Henry's home run, Gibson's home run, all throughout my career, I like to call a play and then shut up because for a brief moment, I'm 8 years old again," Scully said. "I'm listening to the crowd.""That's when I let it go for however long, and I stood there thinking about the impact, and the more I thought about it...
Scully would insert a little silence 21 years later on a crisp fall day in Atlanta. On Oct. 28, 1995, during Game 6 of the World Series, Scully would paint the picture of Atlanta–Fulton County Stadium on the radio that Atlanta Braves fans had waited 30 years to see.Scully told Caray why he chose to insert those dramatic pauses.
"It started when I was 8 years old growing up in New York and there wasn't very much around those times, maybe a Saturday afternoon college football game and I would crawl under a radio and listen to the game and it had no meaning to me, Tennessee-Alabama, but the crowd would roar and that crowd noise just absolutely intoxicated me. And so, I've always kept it," he said.
Scully said the thing he would miss the most during his retirement is the sound of the crowd, but whether Scully knew it or not, the crowd would miss his voice in equal measure.that I have read and agree
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