Vin Scully to Sports Broadcasting Hall of Fame
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Los Angeles Dodgers broadcaster Vin Scully will be inducted into the Sports Broadcasting Hall of Fame in New York on Tuesday night as one of the nine members of the 2008 class.
The ceremony will be hosted by CBS broadcaster Jim Nantz. Scully is expected to accept the award via videotape.
Also being inducted are: Marvin Bader (ABC Olympics), Chet Forte (ABC Sports), Curt Gowdy (ABC, CBS, and NBC), Teddy Nathanson (director, NBC Sports), Don Ohlmeyer (ABC and NBC), Val Pinchbeck (NFL), Bob Seiderman (CBS and Fox Sports), and Charlie Steinberg (Ampex and Sony). The Sports Broadcasting Hall of Fame, formed in 2007 to honor sports TV industry innovators and leaders, announced its inaugural class last year, which included broadcasting legends such as Roone Arledge, Howard Cosell, Jim McKay and Ed Sabol.
Next season will be Scully’s 60th with the Dodgers, the longest tenure of any sports broadcaster with one team in all of sports. Last month, Scully was honored by Pacific Pioneers Broadcasters with the Art Gilmore Career Achievement Award and he has been named California Sportscaster of the Year a record 28 times, while also receiving awards from the Southern California Sports Broadcasters Association (SCSB) and the Radio and Television News Association of Southern California (RTNA). Scully took home the Best Radio Play-by-Play and Best Television Play-by-Play awards from the SCSB and won the prestigious lifetime achievement award from the RTNA.
The New York native was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1982. In July 2000, Scully was named the “Sportscaster of the 20th Century” by more than 500 national members of the American Sportscasters Assn. He has been named the country’s Outstanding Sportscaster four times, and California Sportscaster of the Year 24 times by the National Sportcasters and Sportswriters Assn. In 2001, the press box at Dodger Stadium was named in his honor. During his career, Scully has called 25 World Series and 12 All-Star games.
-- Diane Pucin