This coming from Bill Shaikin of the Los Angeles Times, Vin Scully and the Dodgers are expected to announce on Friday that the greatest baseball announcer of all-time will return to call his 65th season with the team in 2014. He will continue his tradition of simulcasting on radio and TV next season.
It will also mark the first season of the Dodgers on their new cable network which will be powered by Time Warner Cable.
Scully tells the Times: “I really still enjoy it immensely. My health is good, thank God. So why not? And my wife said, ‘Why not?'” Yes, why not? Vin is an American treasure and really is the voice of baseball on TV and radio.
He added: “Just the thought of walking away from it to retirement — and looking out the window or something? It’s just too good.”
So Scully will be back in the booth for 2014 and with the Dodgers on the rise, fans in SoCal are hoping he gets to call one more World Series. The last Fall Classic he called on network television was in 1988 on NBC and it was also the Dodgers last World Championship. Scully continued to call the World Series on CBS Radio until 1997.
It will be a pleasure to know that he will be back in the booth for at least one more season.
