Without much fanfare, the Los Angeles Dodgers sneaked out a press release on Saturday announcing that long-time announcer Vin Scully will return for his 60th season in 2009. Vin has never been a self-promoter so this is par for the course.
Vin goes back to when franchise was in Brooklyn and moved with the Dodgers to Los Angeles in 1958. He’s so heavily associated with the Dodgers that it’s hard to fathom somebody else taking over the reins when Scully eventually retires.
I happened to stumble across the news via the Big Lead whose Patrick Imig somehow found the release.
Tom Hoffarth of the Los Angeles Daily News writes in his Farther Off the Wall blog that it appears that 2009 will be Scully’s last season, but that has yet to be confirmed.
Vin will keep his reduced schedule, working all home games and only road games no farther east than Colorado. If 2009 is Vin’s last season, then the Dodgers should do something to mark the occasion, but knowing a bit about Scully, he would not want to make anything out of it.
We’ll keep you posted.
