* Review: Pull Up a Chair: The Vin Scully Story

June 7, 2009

As reviewed in The Los Angeles Times.

Upshot:

…[T]hose seeking deeper insights into the redheaded announcer will be disappointed. Scully, now 81, is a humble man and has long said he does not want a biography written about him. He did not cooperate with Smith, and the result is an engaging yet uneven book. The author relies on earlier interviews given by Scully as well as other sources to tell the story of a 22-year-old Bronx kid who made his debut in the Brooklyn Dodgers broadcasting booth alongside Red Barber in 1950. Smith recounts Scully’s early years in Los Angeles, his rise in the radio and TV business, and his growth as an announcer whom many consider baseball’s best.

Unfortunately, the human being behind the microphone gets lost in a maze of statistics and a writing style plagued by a bewildering shorthand.

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