Vin Scully

Scully fell in love with baseball at age 8, when he followed the New York Giants in the 1936 World Series.

After serving in the U.S. Navy for two years and working as a student broadcaster and journalist at Fordham University, Scully joined the Dodgers’ broadcast team in 1950 – a position he would hold in Brooklyn and Los Angeles for 67 years, until his retirement in 2016 at age 88. At the time he retired, Scully had called Dodger games for more than half of their 133-year history.

A Los Angeles icon, Scully had many connections to Hollywood. The creator of the X-Files, a big Dodger fan, named agent Dana Scully in homage to the Dodger broadcaster.

Scully received the Ford C. Frick Award from the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1982 and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2016.