Great Scott! How Did This Ever Happen?

Who goofed? Larry Stewart shows a shocking ignorance and a reprehensible disregard for facts when he labels Mark Scott “the Vin Scully of the ‘50s in Los Angeles.”

In the 1950s, Bob Kelley was the voice of the Los Angeles Angels and Sam Balter was the principal voice of the Hollywood Stars, although Tom Harmon and Fred Hessler also did some work at Gilmore Field. Balter and Kelley feuded on their radio shows (Balter at 5:45 on KLAC and Kelley at 6 on KMPC), a feud that occasionally flares anew even today through Kelley’s writer, Jim Healy.

To ignore these trailblazing giants of the industry and then compare a fringe player like Mark Scott to Vin Scully is like calling Walden Pond the Pacific Ocean.

H. ANTHONY MEDLEY

Marina del Rey