When the game mattered, Scully let the crowd do the talking. He never made the big moments about him. He always found a way to make the small moments appeal to us.
The jazz trumpeter Miles Davis is credited with saying that what matters most are not the notes a musician plays, but “the notes you don’t play.” Vin Scully, born one year after Davis, in 1927, seemed to grasp this concept. His signature call – the trademark of the sportscasting craft – was silence. It was not his call but the crowd’s that carried a game’s most important moments.
This is why it’s so difficult to disentangle Scully the person from Scully the craftsman: His genuine affection for the human condition shone through even when his work reached its most stressful crescendos. Who else can say that? Who else can say they did that for 66 years? To be clear, while there are many classy men and women in today’s broadcast booths, no one was Scully’s equal at the craft. In 2016, toward the end of Scully’s last season calling Dodger games, I asked MLB commissioner Rob Manfred if there would ever be another one-man booth in baseball. He wasn’t sure then, but the answer has revealed itself in time. No one flies solo anymore.
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