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Tribute to Vin Scully Continued from Page SI yean, near misses. World Series wins and losses and second division squalor. With Scully, baseball always seemed raucn more tnan just a game of outs, runs and innings. He presented a full-scale perspective literate, al ways objective, knowledgeable of the game precision and pace, with an extraordinary eye for the surround NOW APPEARING FROM HAWAII TME ALOIS ing elements of the action taking place on the field. During a lull, Scully might go off on a whimsical, impromptu tangent he once urged a Dodger crowd to sing happy birthday to umpire Frank Secory.

His pro- EKTEITMNMENT DMPB COCKTAILS SUNDAYS; FAMILY OMOt SNOW 7 PMCU)SED MONDAYS S1L aigious research is such that at a moment notice, Scully can provide a complete biography on the most obscure ballplayer. And there was his voice friendly, authoritative mm Si m-SAT-SUH-MON CONCERTS BY THE SEA YUSEF LATEEF Now Thru July 18 CARMEN McRAE July 20 Thru July 25 ONE NIGHT ONLY-Monday, July 26 THE DOKE ELLINGTON ORCHESTRA AT THE SPOffirSBGU with a comfortable timbre that sounded as though it had been dipped in bronze. We have memorized his familiar preamble to any Dodgers game: "Hi everybody, and a pleasant good evening (morningafternoon) to you wherever you may be." Just pull up a chair, he'd say, and watch the Dodgers and whoever else it happened to be roll around in the dirt for awhile. Baseball could still be fun. Life did go on after a loss.

Indeed, there was something more to life than the game of baseball. Scully's anecdotes, not always related to the game, embellished the inevitable pauses of baseball. He delivered statistics in a way that made you feel they really meant something. He even performed the necessary duties of selling Dodgers tickets and Danny Goodman souvenirs without making one feel as though there was a gun at his back. Come on out and enjoy it the Big Red machine, the Phillies with Mike Schmidt Enjoy it Scully would never hesitate to admire an opposing player or performance.

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