L.A. Times columnist Bill Plaschke looks back on what Vin Scully meant not only to the Los Angeles Dodgers, but to the city itself.
At exactly 7:19p.m. on Sept. 23, 2016, Vin Scully did what he has done for 67 years: He leaned into a microphone.
Scully wore a dark-blue suit, light-blue shirt and a striped blue tie.He thanked the roaring crowd repeatedly. He stood some 40 feet in front of the Dodger Stadium mound — the same mound he said “must be the loneliest place in the world” while Sandy Koufax finished off a perfect game in 1965 — on an elevated platform surrounded by thousands of his closest friends.