Pull Up a Chair Quotes

“I ALWAYS THOUGHT of Mel as a good-natured man who was consumed by the business,” Vin said later. “I looked at him as a warning to me that I never wanted to get so caught up in being an announcer that I forgot I was a man.”
― Curt Smith, Pull Up a Chair: The Vin Scully Story

“CBS TV’s 1957 prime-time Person to Person profiled Mel’s cachet. Another first: Variety, naming him “among the world’s 25 most recognizable voices.” Sports Illustrated hailed “the most successful, best-known, highest-paid, most voluble figure in sportscasting, and one of the biggest names in broadcasting generally,”
― Curt Smith, Pull Up a Chair: The Vin Scully Story

“Two opposites, showing how there’s no one road to popularity,” said Doggett. “Find who you are, then sell what you are.”
― Curt Smith, Pull Up a Chair: The Vin Scully Story

“He was more than just their announcer when the Dodgers came west,” Jim continued. “He was the link to the great Dodger past explaining the new family in the block.”
― Curt Smith, Pull Up a Chair: The Vin Scully Story

“To Murray, he was as “valid an alibi as a letter from the chaplain.”
― Curt Smith, Pull Up a Chair: The Vin Scully Story

“William Manchester wrote of mid-1950s’ America: “To those who cherished it [the age] has come to be remembered as an uncomplicated, golden time, mourned as lost childhoods are mourned, and remembered, in nostalgia, as cloudless.”
― Curt Smith, Pull Up a Chair: The Vin Scully Story

“It simply felt better to have a friendly voice guiding me through the excitement, just as it felt better to look across and see my father.”
― Curt Smith, Pull Up a Chair: The Vin Scully Story

“The one thing that has stood out to me,” Scully noted, “is how Jackie was able to produce so well on the field with so much pressure on him. He had to know, more than anyone else, that if he failed, it may have set back the cause for years, maybe forever.”
― Curt Smith, Pull Up a Chair: The Vin Scully Story

“repeating the score and the outs and the men on base. The funny thing is that it kept me alert.”
― Curt Smith, Pull Up a Chair: The Vin Scully Story

“Above all, Ebbets was participant, not spectator.”
― Curt Smith, Pull Up a Chair: The Vin Scully Story

“Baseball here didn’t set out to be daffy,” said Scully. “It just evolved.”
― Curt Smith, Pull Up a Chair: The Vin Scully Story

“Wright Morris wrote of Norman Rockwell, “His special triumph is in the conviction his countrymen share that the mythical world he evokes actually exists.”
― Curt Smith, Pull Up a Chair: The Vin Scully Story

“As some baseball fans have [long] known and others are just learning, heaven on earth is a good car and an open road, or a soft chair and a cold beer, and Vin Scully calling the action,”
― Curt Smith, Pull Up a Chair: The Vin Scully Story

“He might not be the Voice of God—not deep enough, someone might quibble, not scary enough—but surely it is the Voice of Heaven,” wrote the Washington Post’s Dave Sheinin in 2005.”
― Curt Smith, Pull Up a Chair: The Vin Scully Story

“Vin added realism, lyricism, intimacy, love of history, grasp of workaday joy and fear, and a voice less Pavarotti than Perry Como. Bill Stern turned heads. Scully woos them.”
― Curt Smith, Pull Up a Chair: The Vin Scully Story