4, 1955, when the bridesmaid 'bums' of Brooklyn won their first and only World Series title, defeating the New York Yankees in Game 7 behind Johnny Podres. Iconic Dodgers broadcaster Scully dies at age 94.He began with the team as a 22-year-old graduate of Fordham University, at the invitation of the legendary Red Barber who saw in Scully an 'appealing young green pea' whose earnest Irish lilt would connect with listeners.

It is the longest association between a single franchise and an announcer in American professional sports history. Scully broadcast Dodgers games, first in Brooklyn and then in Los Angeles, starting in the spring of 1950. The sound, he said years later, 'just poured over me.' He loved the spark of the announcer's voice coming through the speaker from some far-off stadium and imagined himself in the crowd, surrounded by its happy roar. AS A BOY, Vincent Edward Scully often lay on the floor in the front room of his family's Washington Heights fifth-floor walk-up, put his head on a pillow tucked under a tabletop radio and listened to Saturday morning football games.

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