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Overview

In 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.

At 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.

The first biography of Vin Scully is long overdue. Curt Smith—to USA Today, “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.” Pull Up a Chair will provide a reader with the same.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781597974240
  • Publisher: Potomac Books, Inc.
  • Publication date: 5/30/2009
  • Pages: 296
  • Sales rank: 624,675
  • Product dimensions: 6.20 (w) x 9.00 (h) x 1.20 (d)

Meet the Author

Curt Smith
USA Today calls Curt Smith the “Voice of authority on baseball broadcasting.” He is the author of thirteen books. He is a GateHouse Media columnist, National Public Radio affiliate host, senior English lecturer at the University of Rochester, and former speechwriter for President George H. W. Bush. He has written about baseball for Newsweek, the New York Times, and Sports Illustrated and hosted panel discussions at the Smithsonian Institution and Baseball Hall of Fame. He lives in upstate New York.

Table of Contents

1 Beginnings (1927-1938) 1

2 Who's a Bum? (1939-1949) 9

3 Younger than Springtime (1950-1953) 31

4 Heaven and the Lower Room (1954-1957) 43

5 California, Here We Come (1958-1961) 65

6 You're the Top (1962-1966) 85

7 Don't Fence Me In (1967-1975) 111

8 Where You Lead (1976-1982) 125

9 Climb Every Mountain (1983-1989) 151

10 From This Moment On (1990-1997) 179

11 Stardust (1998-) 201

12 "Let Us Define Our Terms" 219

Epilogue 233

Sources 237

Bibliography 239

Index 243

About the Author 263

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 24, 2012

    Barely readable

    This is the wrong writing style for an amazing announcer. I couldnt get thirty pages into it...sad.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted August 29, 2010

    "Pull up a Chair, the Vin Scully Story" - Not a Biography in any sense

    Sadly, I must agree with the general tone of comments being made on the Internet about "Pull up a Chair, the Vin Scully Story". I loved the concept, but hated the book. That Curt Smith was once a speechwriter for former President George H.W. Bush helps to clarify so much . . . certainly much more than Smith was able to clarify in "Pull up a Chair". Considering that Scully is a subject others and I have looked forward to reading about for so long, "Pull up a Chair" quickly became one of the most excruciating and disappointing reads I have ever encountered. Trying to maintain any continuity in reading it gave me a serious headache. It must be that Smith is a better researcher than he is a writer, because, based on his apparently self-serving, self-indulgent "Pull up a Chair", he misses badly as a writer, unless it was not his main intent to speak to his audience, but to befuddle them beyond belief. How Smith has been published so many times raises serious concern for the shape of the book industry.

    Smith's approach to story telling should be reserved for rambling banter with someone else that shares his "insider" arrogance, not for readers who pay good money expecting to see sentences that make sense and most assuredly not for fans of Vin Scully, who won't find in this book a credible or legible picture of him. Smith's smug perspective makes the tedious paragraphs and pages and chapters of his messy book seem like he's grudgingly letting us in on the "you had to be there" kind of inside dope one gets when one is actually involved or eavesdrops. He carelessly and incorrectly assumes that we can follow his staccato-like twist of words and quotes as though we shared the press boxes with all the baseball announcers' names he lets fall. His over use of their disjointed voices throughout the book - mostly unknown to us or, at best, obscure to all except the most knowledgeable sports fans - for the purpose of offering miscellaneous snippets of baseball lore without the slightest road map, is an attempt to obfuscate the fact that he has gathered few facts about Scully's life. As a biography, "Pull up a Chair, the Vin Scully Story" is not. The best part of this book was its pictures - not counting the picture of Smith on the dust jacket. I would advise anyone contemplating "Pull up a Chair" that if they have not bought or read it yet, save some money, time and aggravation and don't bother.

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  • Posted September 5, 2009

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    Great Topic - Autonr Mskes it a tough Read though

    A lot of lingo that can be hard to understand, but Scully is the best so it's worth the effort!

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  • Posted August 29, 2009

    A poor book about a great topic

    Theu author tried to write a book about Vin Scully without the cooperation of Mr. Scully. The book does not work. The author seems to try to write the way Vin Scully talks using lots of metaphors and similes. Not only that he keeps jumping back and forth in time and that is very confusing. It just doesn't come off.

    The author spends way, way too much talking about way too many other topics related to baseball and baseball announcers. To me it seems like he wrote the book about a myriad of topics, then decided to call it Vin Scully's biography, and then went back and added more information about Scully.

    All in all I was very disappointed.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted August 22, 2009

    Illustrates the history of baseball from a broadcasters perspective

    Excellent story about the broadcasting career of an icon; there can only be one Vin Scully; that generation of broadcasters will never be duplicated.

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  • Posted August 9, 2009

    Great Gift!

    I gave this book to my dad for Father's Day. He was thrilled. Now I get weekly updates about how much he likes this book and how he logs on to the internet to research topics that come up while he's reading. What a find!

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