Sports broadcasting icon Vin Scully dies at 94

Legendary broadcaster Vin Scully died Tuesday at age 94 at his home in Hidden Hills. His last season with the Dodgers was 2016, a career that "spanned Dodgers history from Jackie Robinson to Clayton Kershaw and included network television stints covering football, tennis and golf." He presided over "some of baseball’s greatest moments: Sandy Koufax’s perfect game, Kirk Gibson’s World Series heroics and Hank Aaron’s eclipse of the all-time home run record." As players "came and went, the voice of the Dodgers remained a constant, fans voting Scully the most memorable personality in team history" (L.A. TIMES, 8/2).

Scully's "distinctive voice and story-telling style -- he conducted his calls solo, without an analyst as a partner -- made for a unique viewing and listening experience, cementing his legacy as perhaps the most singular broadcaster in modern sports history" (SI.com, 8/3).

Other headlines out of the L.A. TIMES:

• Bill Plaschke: "Vin Scully’s voice, a serenade of rebirth, will live on forever in Los Angeles"

• Bill Shaikin: "Scully, Dodgers fans and the transistor radio: How an unbreakable bond was formed"