Scully opens each broadcast by wishing listeners, “A very pleasant good afternoon.” Pull Up a Chair will provide a reader with the same. Curt Smith-to USA Today, “The voice of authority on baseball broadcasting”-is the ideal man to write it. The first biography of Vin Scully is long overdue. He has made every sportscasting Hall of Fame received a Lifetime Emmy Achievement award and a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and been voted “most memorable franchise personality.” In 2000, the American Sportscasters Association named Scully the Sportscaster of the 20th Century. His instantly recognizable voice has described players from Duke Snider to Orel Hershiser to Manny Ramirez, with hundreds in between.Īt one time or another, Scully has aired NBC Television’s Game of the Week, twelve All-Star Games, eighteen no-hitters, twenty-five World Series, and network football, golf, and tennis. Recruited and mentored by the legendary Red Barber, the New York–born Scully moved with the Dodgers to Los Angeles in early 1958.

Nearly sixty years later he still invites a listener to “pull up a chair,” completing a record fifty-ninth consecutive year of play-by-play. It's the fan's game.In 1950, Vin Scully broadcast his first major league baseball game for the then–Brooklyn Dodgers. Jim Sargent writes and researches truly thought provoking baseball articles that prove what Sparky Anderson once said, 'Baseball is not the player's game or the manager's game. Together, the interviews provide a fantastic history of the league, but each one is a stand-alone piece.

The best part of the book however is the forty-two interviews with former AAGPBL players. The women's stories, presented in their actual words, offer all readers special insight to their thoughts, feelings, and experiences'-Nine 'fascinating reading for anyone interested in baseball's history. Even those who have studied the league extensively will find new information contained in the memories and stories of the former players.unique details and anecdotes. The interviews.are informative, providing a wonderful new resource for scholars and casual researchers alike. We Were the All-American Girls: Interviews with Players of the AAGPBL, 1943-1954, by Jim Sargent. The Greatest Overhand Pitcher of the AAGPBL Knoxville's All-American, All-Star Outfielder and Pitcher Remembering Yesterday's All-American Heroines Hard-Throwing Hurler from Baseball's Golden Era

The Hustling Cub Starred in Three World Seriesįootball Star, Stanford Graduate, War Hero, Big Leaguer Remembering the Top First Baseman of the Golden Era

Pitching in the Big Leagues the Underhand WayĪ Coast League Legend Who Loved Baseball Fans The All-Star Center Fielder of the Red Sox Postwar Hero for Cubs, Dodgers, and BravesĪ Famous Slugger from Baseball's Golden EraĪ First-Class Big Leaguer Remembers the 1940s

Pull Up a Chair by Curt Smith