Vin Scully set a Guinness World Record for the longest broadcasting career with a single team
Scully sets Guinness World Record for Dodgers career
Vin Scully has been many things during his long and wonderful career calling Dodgers games -- poet laureate, matchmaker and entertainer of babies everywhere. And now, after 65 years, five months and 22 days on the job, he can add one more title to the list: Guinness World Record holder.
As Scully took to the booth for Wednesday's D-backs-Dodgers game (on Vin Scully Bobblehead Night, no less), he set the mark for the longest broadcasting career with a single team. And with the whole Scully family looking on from the third-base line, Guinness presented him with the plaque to prove it:
You probably won't be surprised to learn that this isn't Scully's first entry into the Guinness books. Amazingly, he set his first one 63 (!) years ago: Back on October 1, 1952, he became the youngest broadcaster to ever call a World Series game when the then-Brooklyn Dodgers took on the Yankees in Game 1. We're willing to bet he didn't get to celebrate that occasion with a miniature, bobbling version of himself, though:
Congratulations, Vin. May you wax poetic about wolves from now 'til eternity.