LIVING HISTORY:

Sixty Years in Dodgers’ Booth, and Scully Is Still in Awe (TYLER KEPNER, 6/25/10, NY Times)

The Yankees won the World Series in 1936, when Vin Scully became a baseball fan. Yet Scully, born in the Bronx, did not root for the winning team. He felt sorry for the losers.

“What happened was, I was 9 years old, and I was walking home from my grammar school in Washington Heights, and there was a Chinese laundry,” Scully recalled this week, in the Dodgers’ broadcast booth before a game.

“And the Chinese laundryman had the line score on a piece of paper on the window of the laundry. I don’t know what number game it was, but the Yankees beat the Giants and they scored in double figures. I mean, they just crushed them. And here is this 9-year-old, knowing nothing, and visibly, I can see it, I stopped and looked at the line score and my first thought was, ‘Oh, those poor Giants.’ And that’s why I became a Giant fan.”