LOS ANGELES -- The Dodgers wrapped 67 years of Vin Scully's career into an hourlong on-field ceremony Friday night, and nobody seemed to mind one bit that first pitch was pushed back some 37 minutes.
Scully, the legendary broadcaster who was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1982, will retire following next Sunday's game at San Francisco. At 88, he has just six games remaining behind the microphone, counting Friday night's matchup between the Dodgers and the Colorado Rockies.
Going back to his first Dodgers broadcast in 1950 in Brooklyn, New York, Scully has called thousands of Dodgers games and also branched out into network golf and as an NFL announcer for a time.