This is a bonus episode of the Daily Article podcast. Welcome. This bonus episode is written by Dr. Jim Denison and narrated by Chris Elkins of the Denison Forum. Today's bonus episode is titled The Life, Faith, and Death of Vin Scully and Our Longing for God.

Vin Scully died on August 2nd at the age of 94.

He called games for the Los Angeles Dodgers for 67 seasons.

Many consider him the greatest baseball announcer of all time.

His story reads like a great American novel.

Scully was born in 1927 in the Bronx, New York.

He served two years in the Navy, then attended Fordham University,

where he played briefly on the baseball team

and called baseball, basketball, and football games for the local radio station.

One month before he graduated in 1949, he got a job with the CBS affiliate in Washington.

The next year, the legendary broadcaster, Red Barber, brought Scully in as the Dodgers

number three broadcaster.

At the age of 25, he became the youngest broadcaster to call a World Series game when the Dodgers

lost to the New York Yankees in

1953. When Barbara left to work for the Yankees in 1953, Scully took over as the Dodgers' primary

announcer. He called some of the most memorable events in baseball history. Sandy Kofax is four, no

hitters. Don Larson's perfect game in the 1956 World Series,

Hank Aaron, 715th home run, Bill Buckner's error in game six of the 1986 World Series,

and Kirk Gibson's pinch-hitting home run in game one of the 1988 World Series.

However, it was Vin Scully's faith that we should

especially remember with gratitude today. A devout Catholic, he often said his faith helped him

cope with the deaths of his first wife, Joan, from an accidental medical overdose, and the

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