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The charm about baseball is everyone has played it in some form. Everyone relates to it.

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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We survive our way through basketball hoping the # Lakers will survive and we hope for the # Kings and for the # Ducks and we want them all to succeed but if you are a true fan and especially if you are a # Dodgers fan deep down inside you are saying please get out of the way, get off the stage, here come the DODGERS!
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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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Clemente could field the ball in New York and throw out a guy in Pennsylvania.
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Naturally there will come a time, when I will have to say goodbye, but I've soul-searched and this is not the time.
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I've always felt that I was talking to one person. But I've never envisioned who that one person is.
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The roar of the crowd has always been the sweetest music. It's intoxicating.
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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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I love baseball and I don't want to be part of anything that would cheapen it or vulgarize it.
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Manuel Corpas is long and lean-the opposite of Olmedo Saenz.
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He (Bob Gibson) pitches as though he's double-parked.
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How good was Stan Musial? He was good enough to take your breath away.
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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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I've always felt, it's a gift of God, whatever I have, whatever has made me do what I do for as long as I do it. But I know I can lose that in one second. A stroke. Whatever. One second. Blow the whole thing. So, when you do think about that, you realize how fortunate and how blessed you've been, and that's really how I feel.
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I really love baseball. The guys and the game, and I love the challenge of describing things.
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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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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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I don’t like to be alone, but I do cherish the moments that I’m alone with a good book.
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I really love baseball. The guys and the game, and I love the challenge of describing things. The only thing I hate - and I know you have to be realistic and pay the bills in this life - is the loneliness on the road.
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Good is not good when better is expected.
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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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