LOVE-VIN LEGEND

Fellow announcers salute ‘kind, gentle, classy, elegant’ Scully

caster, he treated me like a long-time colleague and I’ll never forget that. Every interaction I’ve ever had with him has been warm and special and he makes people feel as though they are the most important person in the room no matter who they are.”

“He’s just a very nice man,” Sean McDonough, the longtime voice of the Red Sox and now with ESPN said. “Grace, classy, elegant person.”

Scully’s last weekend in the booth comes as the Dodgers visit the Giants this weekend. His final home game last Sunday was aired on MLB Network and his final game ever this Sunday could be simulcast again depending on playoff scenarios. TBS will include highlights from the Dodgers game during their coverage of the Red Sox-Blue Jays.

It’s the only way Scully would allow himself to be celebrated in his 66th season. He refused overtures from FOX to call some of the All-Star Game. He saved his lone gesture for the Dodger Stadium crowd, playing a recorded version of his own rendition of “Wind Beneath My Wings” as the players saluted him after celebrating an NL West title Sunday.

“There’s so much that goes into making him unique: the sound of his voice, the erudition, the grace [with which] he carries himself, the sense of the moment, the appreciation of the game and its subtleties,” Cohen said. “It’s the total package. But I think the thing that comes across to me about Vinny is the warmth in which he presents himself and the vocabulary and the classical education that is evident every time he speaks.”

And the stories. Scully has told plenty in his six-plus decades, one to match anything that is going on around the sport.

“I was talking to [Dodgers broadcaster] Rick Monday and he said, ‘Every single producer or boss in this business will tell you never, ever start a story with two outs,’ ” Kay said.

“‘But if Vin Scully starts a story with two outs the batter will foul the ball off 15 times because that’s what the Baseball Gods order.’ ”