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I really love baseball. The guys and the game, and I love the challenge of describing things.

Vin Scully

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Vin Scully
Age: 97
Born: 1927
Born: November 29
Journalist
Sports Commentator
Sportscaster
The Bronx
New York City
Vincent Edward Scully
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Baseball
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Andre Dawson has a bruised knee and is listed as day-to-day. Aren't we all?
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Manuel Corpas is long and lean-the opposite of Olmedo Saenz.
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The charm about baseball is everyone has played it in some form. Everyone relates to it.
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As long as you live keep smiling because it brightens everybody's day.
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I was saying on the air: Victorino used the Twitter and he sent a twit to tell the fans he was coming. Well, the city went hysterical. The sky nearly fell down from laughter. I always thought that if you are going to use Twitter, it's going to be a twit. Why would it be a tweet?
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There's that old saying: Squeeze the juice out of life before life squeezes the juice out of you. I will try to squeeze the remaining juice out of life.
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The roar of the crowd has always been the sweetest music. It's intoxicating.
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The only difference between a winning team and a losing team is one game. The winning team can win two out of three games...the losing team can only win one out of three.
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It's a wonderful feeling to be a bridge to the past and to unite generations. The sport of baseball does that, and I am just a part of it.
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When I was very small, maybe 8 years old, we had a big radio that stood on four legs, and it had a cross piece underneath it, and I used to take a pillow and crawl under the radio.
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That is the way this game is -- you win, you lose, you celebrate and you suffer.
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I would say realistically, and I don't want any headlines, but I would say realistically that next year would be the last year.
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I don't watch teams other than Dodgers on TV and I watch the Dodgers games sparingly. I like to refresh my mind at night, so I like to read. For me, watching baseball at night, it would be like an insurance man reading actuary tables. I like to escape.
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I love baseball and I don't want to be part of anything that would cheapen it or vulgarize it.
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The ability to throw 100 mph cannot be taught, cannot be learned, it can only be God-given.
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Some people die twice: once when they retire, and again when they actually pass away. Fear of the first one is a big incentive for me to keep working.
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If you have a sombrero, throw it to the sky!
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I guess my thermometer for my baseball fever is still a goose bump.
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Good is not good when better is expected.
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