Hi everybody, and a very pleasant good evening to you wherever you may be.

Those are the words with which Vince Scully, widely regarded as the greatest broadcaster

in the history of sports, opened every Dodgers game.

I wish they applied to this evening, but in fact it's actually a very sad evening, as news

just broke that Mr. Scully, as beloved a figure as any in the city of Los Angeles, died

tonight at the age of 94.

Thank you for tuning into the 455th episode of Awards Chatter, the Hollywood Reporter's

Awards podcast.

I'm the host Scott Feinberg, and I've decided to share on this episode the audio of an

interview that I was privileged to conduct with Mr. Scully in the Dodgers press box back

in the summer of 2014 for a profile which then ran in the Hollywood Reporter.

At the time, Scully was 86 and in his 65th season as the voice of the Dodgers, he would

occupy that role for two more seasons before retiring.

Scully, who grew up a fan of the now-defunct New York Giants baseball team, began calling

Dodgers games in 1950 at the age of just 22, while the team still played in Brooklyn

at Ebbets Field.

He moved with them to Los Angeles in 1958 and was instrumental in helping the team find

a following in its new city.

Initially, at the cavernous Los Angeles Memorial Colosseum, to which fans would bring transistor

radios in order to hear Scully describe the far-away action, and then from 1962 until

2016 at Dodgers Stadium in Chavez, Revean.

His run of 67 seasons with the Dodgers organization made him the broadcaster with the longest

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