{"product_id":"pull-up-a-chair-the-vin-scully-story-9781597976619","title":"Pull Up a Chair: The Vin Scully Story","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe first biography of Vin Scully is long overdue. Curt Smith--to \u003ci\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/i\u003e, \"The voice of authority on baseball broadcasting\"--is the ideal man to write it. Scully opens each broadcast by wishing listeners, \"A very pleasant good afternoon.\" \u003ci\u003ePull Up a Chair\u003c\/i\u003e will provide a reader with the same.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1950, Vin Scully broadcast his first major league baseball game for the then-Brooklyn Dodgers. Nearly sixty years later he still invites a listener to \"pull up a chair,\" completing a record fifty-ninth consecutive year of play-by-play. Recruited and mentored by the legendary Red Barber, the New York-born Scully moved with the Dodgers to Los Angeles in early 1958. His instantly recognizable voice has described players from Duke Snider to Orel Hershiser to Manny Ramirez, with hundreds in between.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt one time or another, Scully has aired NBC Television's Game of the Week, twelve All-Star Games, eighteen no-hitters, twenty-five World Series, and network football, golf, and tennis. He has made every sportscasting Hall of Fame; received a Lifetime Emmy Achievement award and a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame; and been voted \"most memorable [L.A. Dodgers] franchise personality.\" In 2000, the American Sportscasters Association named Scully the Sportscaster of the 20th Century. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSmith, Curt:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eCurt Smith\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of seventeen books, including the classic history of baseball broadcasting, \u003ci\u003eVoices of The Game\u003c\/i\u003e. His other books include: \u003ci\u003ePull Up a Chair: The Vin Scully Story \u003c\/i\u003e(Potomac Books, 2009), \u003ci\u003eMercy! A Celebration of Fenway Park's Centennial\u003c\/i\u003e (Potomac Books, 2012), and most recently, \u003ci\u003eGeorge H. W. Bush: Character at the Core\u003c\/i\u003e (Potomac Books, 2014). Smith is a senior lecturer of English at the University of Rochester, a Gate House Media columnist, and a contributor to publications from \u003ci\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/i\u003e to the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e. The host of the \"Voices of The Game\" series at the Smithsonian Institution and the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, he has been named to the Judson Welliver Society of former presidential speechwriters.","brand":"Potomac Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50524981985554,"sku":"9781597976619","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_717afc03-d84d-4f69-b8ac-88b9fabd5e5e.jpg?v=1731196827","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/pull-up-a-chair-the-vin-scully-story-9781597976619","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}