Happy Birthday wishes go out to Vin Scully who turns 81 years old today. Vincent Edward Scully was born in "The Bronx", New York. Vin Scully has been the Los Angeles Dodgers broadcaster for 59 years.

Named California Sportscaster of the Year twenty-eight times, he received the Ford Frick Award from the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1982, was honored with a Life Achievement Emmy Award for sportscasting and induction into the Radio Hall of Fame in 1995, and was named Broadcaster of the Century by the American Sportscasters Association in 2000.

Vin Scully has his own star on the "Hollywood Walk of Fame".