Image of Vin Scully courtesy of Major League Baseball

He Was the Best: Goodbye Vin Scully

The calm, lyrical voice that spoke about great things and good people to many generations

I’ve noticed that a lot of people on Medium write about problems. They write about bad events. They write about unhappiness. They write about health struggles. Their personal misery. Economic disaster. Social unrest.

I’ve written a bit about that.

But I think its also a good idea for us to think, talk, and write more about resilience and how we can all become stronger, healthier, happier, and wiser.

Vin Scully, the beloved Dodger baseball broadcaster who died August 2, 2022 at age 96, was one of the most important factors in my being able to be resilient while growing up.

Here I am trying to write this: I am bawling like a baby because Vin Scully died.

Over the years hearing his voice would get me misty-eyed, remembering warm summer days in the afternoon at Dodger Stadium, watching a game with my dad.

Vin’s calm, mellow voice could calm any emotional storm.

It wasn’t just his voice. Not an inning went by in any game called by Vincent Scully where he did not recount a tale of human goodness or human foibles, with a little lesson offered with the lightest…