He will be forever heard on soft spring afternoons, a serenade of rebirth, a song of hope. Officially, for 67 years, he was the television and radio broadcaster for Dodgers baseball, including from the moment they arrived in town in 1958 until his retirement in 2016. He was not only the greatest Dodger broadcaster, he was the greatest Los Angeles Dodger, period. He is surely the only baseball broadcaster in history whose listeners cheered two-out foul balls so he could finish his story before the commercial break. “The main thing, I want people to remember me as a good man, a good husband, a good father, a good grandfather,” he said.

Source: Los Angeles Times August 03, 2022 04:33 UTC