WEBSITES
"Farther Off the Wall" with Tom Hoffarth on LA.COM Click here to read "A Vin for the ages"
The Los Angeles Dodgers site presents a biography and Vin Scully Retrospective during the Dodgers’ 50th Anniversary season in 2008. http://losangeles.dodgers.mlb.com/team/broadcasters.jsp?c_id=la http://losangeles.dodgers.mlb.com/la/history/vin_scully_tribute/tribute.jsp
As recipient of the 1982 Ford C. Frick Award, Vin Scully was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York. http://web.baseballhalloffame.org/hofers/frick/scully_vin.jsp
The National Radio Hall of Fame is a not-for-profit venture of the Museum of Broadcast Communications (MBC) in Chicago. These are their pages saluting 1995 inductee Vin Scully. http://www.radiohof.org/sportscasters/vinscully.html http://www.museum.tv/rhofsection.php?page=252
Gary Kaufman’s feature about Vin Scully on salon.com celebrating “Brilliant Careers”. http://www.salon.com/people/bc/1999/10/12/scully/
Quotes on the history site baseball-almanac.com by and about Vin Scully. http://www.baseball-almanac.com/quotes/vin_scully_quotes.shtml
Baseball history site baseballlibrary.com presents a brief biography about Vin Scully. http://www.baseballlibrary.com/ballplayers/player.php?name=Vin_Scully
The Internet Movie Database site presents Vin Scully’s filmography and TV shows. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0780303/
The American Sportscasters Association (ASA), was founded in 1980, recognizes outstanding sportscasters by honoring Hall of Fame inductees. Vin Scully was inducted into the ASA Hall of Fame in 1992. http://www.americansportscasters.com/scully.html
For 48 years, Vin Scully worked for the O’Malley family. The following pages from the Official Website of Walter O’Malley features a biography of the Hall of Fame broadcaster. http://www.walteromalley.com/hist_hof_scully.php http://www.walteromalley.com/biog_ref_page59.php
The first radio station that Vin Scully was involved with was WFUV at his alma mater Fordham University. WFUV saluted him with a special program called “Voice of Heaven”.
http://www.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20050727&content_id=1146796
&vkey=news_mlb&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb
In July 2005, USA Today ranked all the Major League Baseball broadcast teams, and as one would expect, Vin Scully and the Dodgers were ranked No. 1 in the nation. http://www.usatoday.com/sports/baseball/2005-07-26-announcers-nl_x.htm
“A Legendary Career That Speaks for Itself” is how the Washington Post honored Vin Scully with a story in 2005.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/04/
AR2005070400935.html
VIDEOS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fww71rJKdns
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tunyz0WWLSI