It was 1950 when Vincent Scully began his career with the Brooklyn Dodgers. In 2016, the great Vin Scully ended his 67-year career with the now Los Angeles Dodgers. Not only is Vin Scully widely considered one of, if not the best play-by-play broadcasters, he holds the record for the longest time with any one sports franchise. Scully passed away this week at the age of 94. During his career, he witnessed some of the greatest moments in baseball history and his voice is now synonymous with those moments.

It was on September 25, 2016, that Vin Scully called his last Dodgers Baseball game. At the end of that game, Scully made a brief speech…

It’s been over 40 years ago that I made my first trip to New York City.  I was in college and with a good friend of mine, we loaded up our bags and took my Volkswagen Beetle and traveled across a good part of the eastern United States.  But New York City was the high point of this journey.  We saw several Broadway shows, including Yul Brynner in a revival of The King and I, plus had the opportunity to see Jack Lemon and Jessica Tandy in plays.  The show we really wanted to see was the smash hit, A Chorus Line.  It had debuted three years earlier and was on its way to becoming the longest running Broadway show in history until Cats broke their record in 1997.  It was a tough ticket to get.  My friend and I were able to snag two “standing room only” tickets and gladly stood at the back of the Schubert Theater to see this amazing show about an ensemble of dancers auditioning for the chorus line.

Of course, competition is fierce to land a role in a Broadway show, even in the chorus, and the dancers share their feelings about how badly they need the role… how badly they need the job!  They sing, “I Hope I Get It”…