Vin Scully

Vin Scully was born on November 29, 1927 in Bronx, New York, USA as Vincent Edward Scully.

Induced into the Fordham University Athletics Hall of Fame in 1977.

Called three World Series and four NLCS' as NBC's lead baseball broadcaster in the 1980s.

Received baseball's Ford C. Frick Award for broadcasters, 1982.

Inducted into the American Sportscasters Association Hall of Fame in 1992.

Vin Scully was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame in 1995.

Play-by-play announcer for the Los Angeles Dodgers (completing 50th year with the team) [1999]

Has embarked on his 57th season of providing play-by-play for the Dodgers. [April 2006]

Ranked #1 by the American Sportscasters Association in its list of the Top 50 Sportscasters of All-Time (January 2009).

Has called four perfectly pitched games in his career, with three of them being against the Dodgers. Don Larsen, NYY, 10/8/1956; Sandy Koufax, LA, 9/9/1965; Tom Browning, CIN, 9/16/1988; Denis Martinez, MON, 7/28/1991.

In July 2014, the Dodgers announced that Vin Scully will return (for his 66th year) as their broadcaster for the 2015 season.

He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian award, by President Barack Obama, in a live televised ceremony held in the East Room of the White House, on November 22, 2016, along with twenty other recipients, the the largest, and final Medal of Freedom ceremony of Obama's presidency. At this ceremony, the twenty-one recipients, in alphabetical order, included: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Elouise Cobell (posthumous award given to her son), Ellen DeGeneres, Robert De Niro, Richard Garwin, Bill Gates, Melinda Gates, Frank Gehry, Margaret Hamilton (as Margaret H. Hamilton), Tom Hanks, Rear Admiral Grace Hopper (posthumous award given to her niece), Michael Jordan, Maya Lin, Lorne Michaels, Newton Minow, Eduardo Padron (as Eduardo Padrón), Robert Redford, Diana Ross, Vin Scully, Bruce Springsteen, and Cicely Tyson.