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Now I'm totally confused.

While the Dodgers went on the road, Barber remained behind, calling games from the studio. However, he never tried to deceive his listeners into thinking he was broadasting from the site of an away game, letting them hear the teletype clacking in the background instead of playing taped crowd sounds. All he got was the results, for instance " Furillo flys out" then Red would say " Furillo hits a high fly to left back goes the left fielder and makes the catch" understand now?

Yes, thank you. The tapes I have were from Ebbets Field games, therefor done live.

I don't think the ones I'm talking about can be found.

There may have been someone out there who did a recording. The games Number 4 heard in DC area were all re-creations done by Nat Albright.

DODGERS BROADCASTERS




English Broadcasters Years

Vin Scully, Charley Steiner, Rick Monday 2005-Present

Vin Scully, Ross Porter, Rick Monday 1993-2004

Vin Scully, Don Drysdale, Ross Porter 1988-93

Vin Scully, Jerry Doggett, Ross Porter 1977-87

Vin Scully, Jerry Doggett 1958-76

Vin Scully, Al Helfer, Jerry Doggett 1957

Vin Scully, Connie Desmond, Al Helfer, Jerry Doggett 1956

Vin Scully, Connie Desmond, Andre Baruch 1954-55

Red Barber, Connie Desmond, Vin Scully 1950-53

Red Barber, Connie Desmond, Ernie Harwell 1948-49

Red Barber, Connie Desmond 1934-47

Red Barber, Alan Hale 1942

Red Barber, Al Helfer 1939-41

In the 1955 Dodgers yearbook it only has photos of Helfer, Scully and Baruch, where was Desmond's photo.

Maybe because the '55 yearbook had all 1954 info!? Aren't yearbooks filled with the season BEFORE information?

The photo says our newest and biggest announcer Al Helfer with Vin Scully.

I first met Vin Scully in my grandfather's kitchen. He came singing out of a large maroon radio that sat on the windowsill above the kitchen sink. It was July of 1952 and the Dodgers were in Philadelphia playing the Phils. My Uncle Charlie was drinking a Trommer's beer and yelling at the radio: "what the hell's wrong with Schnidah?" The Duke had whiffed with the sacks FOB (full of Brooklyn--that was the Redhead's slang). BTW, I was sipping a root beer (the closest I got to beer for a while).

The voice of the Los Angeles Dodgers will return in 2009 for his 60th season broadcasting the team's games.

Vin Scully, 80, announced Friday that he would return for the 2009 season after getting clearance from his wife, Sandra.

"When you're on the road as much as we are, it's the loneliness of your wife that you consider," Scully told MLB.com. "But she said, 'It's been such a part of my life for so long, you might as well do it if you want to do it.' And I still enjoy it. I still feel like I'm happy to be here, I still get goosebumps with an exciting play. So, I told [Dodgers owner Frank McCourt] that I'll try it for another year."

Scully's current three-year contract expires after the 2008 season. He made no commitment beyond the 2009 season and will call all Dodgers home games and road games that are as far east as Colorado.

Scully, who has been broadcasting Dodger games since 1950, was inducted into baseball's Hall of Fame in 1982 when he was awarded the Ford C. Frick Award.

The Dodger Stadium press box was named in his honor in 2001.

Although I don't always agree with him, I love listening to him calling a game.

I agree. Vince is great.

It's hard to believe that Vin is 80 years old. On the other hand it's hard to believe we are the age we are. How old was Vince when he started?

Scully was born in November, 1927. He began broadcasting with the Dodgers in 1950 at age 23, broadcasting along with Red Barber and Connie Desmond. He graduated from Fordham in 1949. He began broadcasting the World Series in 1953 after Barber had his flap with Gillette.