Smith explores why Vin Scully, 81, remains the surpassing personality of baseball on the air and was named this year as the American Sportscasters Association “Top Sportscaster of All-Time”. Listening to Scully, we feel the fielder crouched, batter cocked, and pitcher winding – above all, we wish to pull up next to Vin’s chair. Smith describes how the Bronx-born Giants fan ironically ended up as the voice of the Dodgers, tracing Scully’s career and detailing his classic 1965 call of Sandy Koufax’s perfect game.

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Curt Smith

Curt Smith (curtsmith@netacc.net) is America's leading baseball broadcast historian. He was a speechwriter to President George H.W. Bush: to The New York Times, his work was "the high point of Bush familial eloquence." Smith is also the author of 13 books, including Voices of The Game, The Voice, and newly-released Pull Up a Chair: The Vin Scully Story; regular columnist for GateHouse Media newspapers; and award-winning NPR affiliate syndicated host. The former Gannett News reporter, Saturday Evening Post senior editor, and Smithsonian Institution host is now Senior Lecturer of English at the University of Rochester. A member of the HOF’s Ford C. Frick Award committee, Smith founded the Museum of Broadcast Communications Franklin D. Roosevelt Award.