...baseball play-by-play announcer and this year will become the network's lead football play-by-play announcer. Vin Scully summed up Jack Buck this way: "He was a gruff-voiced guy with a big heart." Tim McCarver said, "Jack Buck had...

...a video tribute and free-flowing tears at Veterans Stadium. At Dodger Stadium, longtime Los Angeles broadcaster Vin Scully addressed the crowd, saying: "The president has said it is time to go back to work. Baseball gets up out of the dirt...

...know that the man he is replacing, Jerry West, was an L.A. guy. There are not many L.A. guys left. I phoned Vin Scully Monday to ask about Jerry West, one icon talking about another. Scully laughed that self-deprecating laugh. "We...

...the 1960s. His childhood was marked by seasons: football in the fall, basketball in winter, summer evenings with Vin Scully and the Los Angeles Dodgers. "I had a transistor radio," he said. "I listened under the covers because I was supposed...