Reflections on life, meaning and purpose

What Vin Scully Taught Me

Carols precede Christmas, birds welcome the dawn, and the voice of Vin Scully heralds the spring. The longtime Dodgers announcer, who passed away earlier this month at age ninety-four, marked the start of every baseball season of my childhood, just as he had for my father and grandfather. For sixty-seven years, Vin was the voice of the Dodgers—a voice that chronicled the move from Brooklyn to L.A., from a barely integrated league to an international one, and from radio to the internet. He spoke to us of a game that is much more than just a game.

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