L.A. Times: Scully pulls up his own chair (RR)

“Relishing the pressures and the tensions”...watching the Don Larsen perfecto with Vin Scully.

It was Scully’s luck to have drawn the second half of the Larsen game.

It was how they did things in the World Series, each team’s broadcaster did half the game.

“Mel was heartbroken he didn’t do the entire game,” Scully said. “If you’re the lead tenor in the opera and you come to the big moment and can’t go back on stage after all those years of work, that wasn’t easy.”

Like the rest of baseball fans, Scully is looking forward to seeing more of what the new network might offer.

“The MLB has the resources, they have a gold mine,” Scully said. “Features on players, someone like Roberto Clemente, Ted Williams, Stan Musial, some of the players so many have never seen, if you can watch Willie Mays playing, it’s electrifying.”

Kind of like listening to Vin Scully calling a perfect game, it’s worth the replay.