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Los Angeles Times
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Bill Shaikin

Bill Shaikin: Forget Frick. Time to put Vin Scully's name on this award.

LOS ANGELES — The postseason won't be the same without Vin Scully. The last time we had one without him, "the postseason" was simply called "the World Series," won by the most celebrated team in baseball history: the 1927 New York Yankees.

Scully was born one month later, and his decorated career included some of the most memorable calls in postseason history, including these 1988 words that will live forever: "In a year that has been so improbable, the impossible has happened!"

If you are an old-time Dodgers fan, these 1959 words will live forever: "Up with it is Mantilla, throws low and wild! Hodges scores, we go to Chicago!" If you are afflicted with East Coast bias, these 1986 words will live forever: "It gets through Buckner!"

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