Kevin Costner captured the moment and our own history listening to baseball through Vin Scully's voice. Hard not to well up a little in the telling of it.
Vin Scully. THE voice of baseball. The heart and soul of baseball. Forever a legend. Forever in our hearts, the greatest voice the game of baseball has ever known.
Costner did an excellent job describing how soCal dodger fans feel about our vinnie, I was one of those boys who grew up listening to him on a transistor radio broadcasting dodger games. Thank you vinnie for all the years and memories, we will miss you terribly.
I was also lucky enough to grow up in Southern California listening to Vin Scully along with Chick Hearn, Dick Enberg and Bob Miller, depending on the time of year. I marked the seasons passing by listening to the greatest quartet of announcers imaginable. I am grateful indeed.
Wow. I can see why everyone is crying there. Hell I'm crying watching this. I'm no fan of the Dodgers, but grew up listening to him, and fell in love with the game because of him. Thank you Vin. And a tip of the cap from everyone everywhere that you inspired in this great game.
Crying as I type this.....For all those moments I heard him on the radio....for all those summer nights when I'd sneak my transistor radio under the pillow so I could hear the game....and fall asleep to his voice....There will never be any broadcaster greater than Vin Scully.
RIP Vince Scully. I am a Yankees fan, age 52, and loved you in the movie For Love of the Game. You were the best broadcaster ever in real life. Thank you for letting me listen to you call games all these years.
I was 10 in 1969 when I first heard the Dodgers and Vin Scully since then he's been with me all the way through the best of times through the toughest of times I will miss him thanks Vinny
Greg, I was a Twin's fan in 1965 when they played The Dodgers in the World Series, losing in seven games. Especially enjoyable was Scully's game-calling, after which I became a Dodger's fan too. Besides, watchin' Koufax pitch was awesome. Heck, they even had an entirely switch-hitting infield, not to mention a great rival upstate in Frisco with Marachal, Mays, and McCovey, and the three Alou brothers.
I also grew up in SoCal-Hawthorne, just on the other side of LAX. When I moved to Oregon at 19 the thing I really missed was listening to Vin Scully on the radio. He was an incredible baseball story teller. By far the best story teller ever.
Thank You Dodger fans for your memories and emotions for Vince Scully who we are so grateful for and who shared so many good moments of baseball. 'whevever we may be."
This entire ceremony was worthy of the legendary Vin Scully. This speech from Costner is FANTASTIC & warm & heartfelt. The decision to play the music from "Field of Dreams" beneath it was a master's stroke. Jeez, this a tear jerker!
How can you not aged tears I'm a Cleveland Indians fan and to seeus lose our name sake because of a few who are butt hurt and by the way I'm native American Sioux .how could anyone be offended. It breaks my heart 💔
Kevin's speech is spot on. I'm sure everyone can relate when he mentions hearing Vin's voice on the radio, in the house or in the car or in our backyards. I remember back in the day listening to a Yankee baseball game on an AM radio, a summertime thunderstorm approaching our area, with the lightning static on the radio.
My one escape in my childhood, teenage years, and even in my adult life today, was, and is, baseball. In the early 70's, I would always look forward to watching the games on KTLA, Channel 11, the original LA Dodgers flagship station at the time. That escape from childhood was punctuated by the soothing voice and loquacity of Vin Scully's voice. As I grew older, I would come in possession of transistor radios and would tune in to KABC, 590 AM to listen to Vin describe the Dodger games with the radio tucked under my pillow, and my head buried in it so I could hear the games. I loved those games, and his articulation of the plays he saw happening in front of him. I wanted to go to these games so bad, and see for myself what Vin was describing, and see the players in real life myself. I finally got my chance in 1974, when my foster father scored a package of outfield bleacher tickets for about 6 or seven games that year. We saw the Cubs, Expos, Padres, Phillies, Mets, and Giants. Names like Cey, Garvey, Lopes, Russell, Yeager, Sutton, Hooton, Messersmith, Wynn, Lacy, Mota, Rhoden, Royster, DeJesus........I was in heaven. And of course, I brought my transistor radio with me so I could hear Vin and Jerry Doggett broadcast and analyze the games. Through the years, Vin was my gateway to heaven and heartache with the Dodgers. In 1977 I moved to Maine and with that, lost the chance to hear Vin on the radio. Thankfully the Dodgers made it to the World Series in 77 and 78, where I got to hear Vin again. Unfortunately it was a sad ending both years as the Dodgers lost to the hated Yankees. I never cried to a baseball game before, but those years, I cried. Vin helped bring the game so much emotion and rawness to the eyes of this kid and made me fall in love with baseball every chance I got to hear his voice. In 1981 when the Dodgers finally won the World Series and beat the Yankees, I was ecstatic - I got to hear Vin in vivid detail and emotion describe and call the winning plays and bring that World Series to life, as if I were there again. You have been a part of my life because of baseball Vin. And baseball was alive to me because of you. Your voice soothed me in my youth, carried me into adulthood, and always took me back to a good, safe place in my life when I needed it. I will miss you and the way you described the game, the way the game filled my heart with happiness, heartache, and peace during the times I needed them the most. There will never be another like you. RIP, Vin. Many of us needed you as much as you needed us, and no one will ever fill that role like you did for all of us.
I was 9 when he came to L. A. I played all my baseball years listening to Vinnie. When the army sent me to Germany, I was so homesick, and Armed Forces radio played the world series, and Vinnie called the game. I was home.
Tonight my Daughter and I met Dwier Dwier Brown, who played John Kinsella in Field of Dreams. Better still, I had th opportunity to "have a catch" with him. To say it was a surreal moment in my life would be an understatement. To say it was special doesn't begin to do the moment justice. The game of baseball is romantic. It is something that gets inside you and tonight I was moved nearly to tears playing catch with a man I had just met, but a man who seemed so familiar to me. Vin Scully had that same affect on people.
as a big time dodgers fan..... there was many times I left the tv not just to watch a Dodgers game, but on just to listen to the soundtrack of Vin Scully. Never again will I hear his voice. :*)
I can remember the first time I heard Vin Scully's voice it was 3/31/98 and it was on TV but not in the way you might think it was in a video game didn't think much of it other than nice voice (his video game commentary was very basic until his last appearance in 05 it became a little more in-depth) and I said to myself I got to hear this guy more so I ordered the MLB extra innings package and from the first live broadcast I heard I was hooked and every year since I've ordered either MLB.tv or MLB extra innings his descriptive ability is one-of-a-kind (as a legally blind man I felt like I was in the seats at dodger Stadium) i've lost count of how many nights in the last 10 years or so I could put a Dodgers game on my computer turn the monitor off and still feel like I was watching every second of it here in Massachusetts he has made for a lot of late nights for me but I wouldn't have it any other way it is very sad that he's retiring but I wish him nothing but the best love that man
I wish he would've broken the media and grabbed the podium, and picked it up and moved it to turn it towards him (behind home plate speaking to him would add....)....but Costner did a heartfelt reading and a trilogy to a great man. Much respect for someone I didn't know.
When you say dodgers you automatically think yes this man is better than the TV . TV who needed it Vin made you feel like you where there, he would tell you the history of everyone that came up up to bat thanks Vin for all the knowledge of the sport you are the greatest of all time C.Peirce bleeding dodger blue forever
Every one of my FB friends is invited to relive a farewell tribute to the "greatest baseball/sports announcer in the history of broadcasting. I hope you will enjoy this and realize it is very unlikely that you will hear such a voice and such a memory and an experience one with the ability to share his skills again in our lifetime.
I'm 59, a New Yorker and knew Vin Scully from doing games in the world series and sometimes during the season and just knowing how prolific he is. I was a big Yankee fan and hated everyone else. There were just a few exception. This man & his friend Sandy Koufax were 2 of them.
I feel like America was America with Vin. We rooted together. We shared experiences. We didn't see our differences in the political world, only in the teams we rooted for. We lost you tonight, Vin. America lost it's voice.
Vin Scully. THE voice of baseball. The heart and soul of baseball. Forever a legend. Forever in our hearts, the greatest voice the game of baseball has ever known.
Priceless...
A giant of a man....
He was baseball, for my entire life.
God bless u Vin.
Costner did an excellent job describing how soCal dodger fans feel about our vinnie, I was one of those boys who grew up listening to him on a transistor radio broadcasting dodger games. Thank you vinnie for all the years and memories, we will miss you terribly.
ben curry amen ❤️👍
I grew up in So Cal. I'm 57 years old, and can never remember no Vinny. What a guy. Thank you for sharing this.
I was also lucky enough to grow up in Southern California listening to Vin Scully along with Chick Hearn, Dick Enberg and Bob Miller, depending on the time of year. I marked the seasons passing by listening to the greatest quartet of announcers imaginable. I am grateful indeed.
Wow. I can see why everyone is crying there. Hell I'm crying watching this. I'm no fan of the Dodgers, but grew up listening to him, and fell in love with the game because of him. Thank you Vin. And a tip of the cap from everyone everywhere that you inspired in this great game.
Crying as I type this.....For all those moments I heard him on the radio....for all those summer nights when I'd sneak my transistor radio under the pillow so I could hear the game....and fall asleep to his voice....There will never be any broadcaster greater than Vin Scully.
I'm a 38 year old man from Los Angeles and cried my eyes out, this was simply beautiful. Thank you Vin.
Your not the only one Hector am a 40 year old man and my eyes where filled with tears Kevin speech was beautiful
RIP Vince Scully. I am a Yankees fan, age 52, and loved you in the movie For Love of the Game. You were the best broadcaster ever in real life. Thank you for letting me listen to you call games all these years.
I was 10 in 1969 when I first heard the Dodgers and Vin Scully since then he's been with me all the way through the best of times through the toughest of times I will miss him thanks Vinny
Greg, I was a Twin's fan in 1965 when they played The Dodgers in the World Series, losing in seven games. Especially enjoyable was Scully's game-calling, after which I became a Dodger's fan too. Besides, watchin' Koufax pitch was awesome. Heck, they even had an entirely switch-hitting infield, not to mention a great rival upstate in Frisco with Marachal, Mays, and McCovey, and the three Alou brothers.
I also grew up in SoCal-Hawthorne, just on the other side of LAX. When I moved to Oregon at 19 the thing I really missed was listening to Vin Scully on the radio. He was an incredible baseball story teller. By far the best story teller ever.
Thank You Dodger fans for your memories and emotions for Vince Scully who we are so grateful for and who shared so many good moments of baseball. 'whevever we may be."
My Gosh. That was beautiful. "The GOAT", of announcers, Vin Scully.
Costner's tribute was remarkably moving.
Listening to this with tears on the eve of his passing. Legend. Legend. Legend. God bless Vin.
a Dodger game without Vin Scully is like a day without sunshine.
This entire ceremony was worthy of the legendary Vin Scully. This speech from Costner is FANTASTIC & warm & heartfelt. The decision to play the music from "Field of Dreams" beneath it was a master's stroke. Jeez, this a tear jerker!
How can you not aged tears I'm a Cleveland Indians fan and to seeus lose our name sake because of a few who are butt hurt and by the way I'm native American Sioux .how could anyone be offended. It breaks my heart 💔
Kevin's speech is spot on. I'm sure everyone can relate when he mentions hearing Vin's voice on the radio, in the house or in the car or in our backyards. I remember back in the day listening to a Yankee baseball game on an AM radio, a summertime thunderstorm approaching our area, with the lightning static on the radio.
My one escape in my childhood, teenage years, and even in my adult life today, was, and is, baseball. In the early 70's, I would always look forward to watching the games on KTLA, Channel 11, the original LA Dodgers flagship station at the time. That escape from childhood was punctuated by the soothing voice and loquacity of Vin Scully's voice. As I grew older, I would come in possession of transistor radios and would tune in to KABC, 590 AM to listen to Vin describe the Dodger games with the radio tucked under my pillow, and my head buried in it so I could hear the games. I loved those games, and his articulation of the plays he saw happening in front of him. I wanted to go to these games so bad, and see for myself what Vin was describing, and see the players in real life myself. I finally got my chance in 1974, when my foster father scored a package of outfield bleacher tickets for about 6 or seven games that year. We saw the Cubs, Expos, Padres, Phillies, Mets, and Giants. Names like Cey, Garvey, Lopes, Russell, Yeager, Sutton, Hooton, Messersmith, Wynn, Lacy, Mota, Rhoden, Royster, DeJesus........I was in heaven. And of course, I brought my transistor radio with me so I could hear Vin and Jerry Doggett broadcast and analyze the games. Through the years, Vin was my gateway to heaven and heartache with the Dodgers. In 1977 I moved to Maine and with that, lost the chance to hear Vin on the radio. Thankfully the Dodgers made it to the World Series in 77 and 78, where I got to hear Vin again. Unfortunately it was a sad ending both years as the Dodgers lost to the hated Yankees. I never cried to a baseball game before, but those years, I cried. Vin helped bring the game so much emotion and rawness to the eyes of this kid and made me fall in love with baseball every chance I got to hear his voice. In 1981 when the Dodgers finally won the World Series and beat the Yankees, I was ecstatic - I got to hear Vin in vivid detail and emotion describe and call the winning plays and bring that World Series to life, as if I were there again.
You have been a part of my life because of baseball Vin. And baseball was alive to me because of you. Your voice soothed me in my youth, carried me into adulthood, and always took me back to a good, safe place in my life when I needed it. I will miss you and the way you described the game, the way the game filled my heart with happiness, heartache, and peace during the times I needed them the most. There will never be another like you. RIP, Vin. Many of us needed you as much as you needed us, and no one will ever fill that role like you did for all of us.
I love you Vin!!!
NOBODY left like him.TANKS VIV !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I was 9 when he came to L. A. I played all my baseball years listening to Vinnie. When the army sent me to Germany, I was so homesick, and Armed Forces radio played the world series, and Vinnie called the game. I was home.
Tonight my Daughter and I met Dwier Dwier Brown, who played John Kinsella in Field of Dreams. Better still, I had th opportunity to "have a catch" with him. To say it was a surreal moment in my life would be an understatement. To say it was special doesn't begin to do the moment justice. The game of baseball is romantic. It is something that gets inside you and tonight I was moved nearly to tears playing catch with a man I had just met, but a man who seemed so familiar to me. Vin Scully had that same affect on people.
I was there dodger stadium.... there wasn't a dry eye in the house.
There will never be another Vincent Edward Scully 🎙💙💖💔
He will be forever missed 😢 November 29, 1927 ~ August 2, 2022
in Chicago... tears flowing VIN VIN VIN
budakus buddy 🤘🏻
GOAT, period
as a big time dodgers fan..... there was many times I left the tv not just to watch a Dodgers game, but on just to listen to the soundtrack of Vin Scully. Never again will I hear his voice. :*)
Its not summer without vin scully. no two ways about it.
Thanks for sharing this!
I can remember the first time I heard Vin Scully's voice it was 3/31/98 and it was on TV but not in the way you might think it was in a video game didn't think much of it other than nice voice (his video game commentary was very basic until his last appearance in 05 it became a little more in-depth) and I said to myself I got to hear this guy more so I ordered the MLB extra innings package and from the first live broadcast I heard I was hooked and every year since I've ordered either MLB.tv or MLB extra innings his descriptive ability is one-of-a-kind (as a legally blind man I felt like I was in the seats at dodger Stadium) i've lost count of how many nights in the last 10 years or so I could put a Dodgers game on my computer turn the monitor off and still feel like I was watching every second of it here in Massachusetts he has made for a lot of late nights for me but I wouldn't have it any other way it is very sad that he's retiring but I wish him nothing but the best love that man
I wish he would've broken the media and grabbed the podium, and picked it up and moved it to turn it towards him (behind home plate speaking to him would add....)....but Costner did a heartfelt reading and a trilogy to a great man. Much respect for someone I didn't know.
nice touch with Kevin sending you off.
When you say dodgers you automatically think yes this man is better than the TV . TV who needed it Vin made you feel like you where there, he would tell you the history of everyone that came up up to bat thanks Vin for all the knowledge of the sport you are the greatest of all time
C.Peirce bleeding dodger blue forever
Every one of my FB friends is invited to relive a farewell tribute to the "greatest baseball/sports announcer in the history of broadcasting. I hope you will enjoy this and realize it is very unlikely that you will hear such a voice and such a memory and an experience one with the ability to share his skills again in our lifetime.
enjoyed every word of wisdom he said
Vin Scully is the very best!!!!
awesome kc
Too beautiful Thank you.
I'm 59, a New Yorker and knew Vin Scully from doing games in the world series and sometimes during the season and just knowing how prolific he is. I was a big Yankee fan and hated everyone else. There were just a few exception. This man & his friend Sandy Koufax were 2 of them.
Vin is one of the very few things I miss about LA.
Thanks for this upload. It looks like Negative Nancy, and Sensitive Sally disliked this.
so so cool!!!! he was the best!!
Damn you Kevin Coster!!! Onions...
Costner's speech I very well done but it's that "Field of Dreams" soundtrack that makes the moment so special.
I’m a wreck…thank you V.S and C.C 🥺
8:06 Costner predicted or dare I say, prophesied, Scully's final Dodger game. Talk about a Hollywood ending.
Love you, Vin....
Heartbroken fan in Detroit
Thanks VIN
Thinking back about Vin Scully's great career calls and this wonderful tribute by Costner, it seems Joe Montana should be in the vicinity.
another American legend passes into the mist
Beautiful!!
I cried my eyes out the first time. 3 times later I have emptied 2 tissue boxes
Costner really stepped up given the fight he had with his girlfriend right before this speech.
😢😢😢😢😢
Vin Scully....the Mariano Rivera of baseball broadcasters.
I feel like America was America with Vin. We rooted together. We shared experiences. We didn't see our differences in the political world, only in the teams we rooted for. We lost you tonight, Vin. America lost it's voice.
This was so cheeseballlllllll hahaaa. The music lmao.
Wow 😹 up
The background music is a bit odd
Its costner’s Field Of Dreams soundtrack
:')
Vince Scully is the BEST!!!!
He was no bob Prince