Vin Scully Covering Sandy Koufax’ Perfect Game on September 9, 1965, Including Interviews with Koufax and Ron Howard (Video)

Re-posted by N.S.

There was a generations-long tradition, surely a superstition, whereby, if a pitcher was working on a no-hitter, you didn’t refer to it directly. And so Scully came up with this brilliant scheme of constantly telling his audience the time and date of what was transpiring, to let them know that this was a special game. Baseball announcers don’t just do that.

Here is what I wrote to the twit poster, in response:

Beautiful. Brilliant. Scully fled the Mecca of baseball sometime in the late 1950s, following one of the three tyrants of the 20th century: There was Hitler, Stalin, and O’Malley. Made a name for himself somewhere.

“O’Malley” was Dodger owner Walter O’Malley, who sought to extort a big, new stadium out of new york city taxpayers. the city refused. The list in which O’Malley was one of the three most horrific men of the 20th century came via the late Pete Hamill’s father, a Brooklyn Irishman and almost as big a Dodgers fan as my Hungarian-born nana, Mrs. Fanny Frank Simpkins (1893-1976).

Vin Scully. Sandy Koufax. pic.twitter.com/Lqn7zb0kpG

— Honest☘️Larry (@HonestLarry1) August 11, 2022