LOS ANGELES — Veteran sports broadcaster Al Michaels has a 20-year-old answering machine in his Brentwood home, and it will likely never be thrown out. The device contains several messages from the late Dodgers announcer Vin Scully who died Aug. 2.
Michaels, 77, spent his early years in Brooklyn, where he first listened to radio broadcasts of the Dodgers games with Scully in the booth. The team, its legendary announcer and a young aspiring sportscaster all moved to Los Angeles in 1958. Michaels never stopped listening.
"I learned a lot from Vin — he was the voice in my ear," Michaels said during a recent conversation over breakfast in his backyard. "He never sounded like he didn't want to be there. He could take a run-of-the-mill game and make it a great listen. And he could take a great game and make it an iconic listen."
