Baseball news reports last week indicated Los Angeles Dodgers legendary play-by-play announcer Vin Scully has decided to return for another year behind the microphone in 2011. The 82-year-old Hall of Famer will be in his 62nd season calling Dodgers games in a career that goes back to seven years before the team left Brooklyn.
If you watch Dodgers games on TV in Japan (JSPORTS usually telecasts when Hiroki Kuroda is on the mound), you can tell Scully's voice, delivery and wit have lost absolutely nothing, and there is no reason why he should not go on.
Scully, inducted into the broadcasters wing of the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y., in 1982, is arguably the most popular major league game announcer of all time, having outlasted other notables such as Mel Allen with the New York Yankees, Harry Caray of Chicago Cubs fame and Ernie Harwell, the Detroit Tigers' longtime voice. Those three have died after their own long and distinguished careers.