Los Angeles Dodgers Broadcasters

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Broadcasters

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VIN SCULLY
Vin Scully, whose status as one of the top sportscasters in history was reaffirmed recently when he was voted "Sportscaster of the 20th Century," enters his 53rd season as the "voice of the Dodgers" on FOX Sports Net 2, UPN TV Channel 13 and Fox Sports AM 1150. The Hall of Famer's 53 years of consecutive service with the Dodgers is the longest of any current Major League broadcaster with one team.

Scully, whose vivid yet simplistic description of a baseball game has thrilled fans for years, joined Hall of Fame announc-er Red Barber and Connie Desmond as part of the Brooklyn Dodgers' broadcast team in 1950, just a year after graduat-ing from Fordham University. Scully, who played outfield for two seasons on Fordham's baseball team, called baseball, basketball and football games for the university's radio station. In 1982, 32 years after he first became a Dodger broad-caster, Scully reached the pinnacle of his sparkling career in baseball when he was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame as the Ford C. Frick Award recipient.

In July 2000, Scully was elected as the top sportscaster of the 20th century by more than 500 national members of the American Sportscasters Association. He topped such broadcasting icons as Howard Cosell, Mel Allen and others in bal-loting by the ASA, a non-profit organization that recognizes achievements in sports broadcasting. Also in 2000, Scully was honored by Fordham University in Bronx, NY as he received a Doctorate of Humane Letters honorary degree. He also was the commencement speaker for Fordham's 2000 graduating class of 3,765. On April 21, 2001, the press box at Dodger Stadium was named in Scully's honor.

In addition to his Dodger broadcasts, the multi-talented broadcaster called play-by-play for National Football League games and PGA Tour events on CBS TV from 1975-82 and play-by-play for Major League Baseball's Game of the Week, three World Series and four All-Star Games on NBC TV from 1983-89. Scully also called play-by-play for the World Series on CBS Radio from 1990-97. In all, he has called 25 World Series and 12 All-Star Games.

Scully portrayed himself in "For the Love of the Game," the 1999 Universal Pictures release starring Kevin Costner. During the 1999 World Series, Scully served as master of ceremonies at Major League Baseball's "All Century Team" unveiling at Atlanta's Turner Field. He was also named "best of the century" in Los Angeles Sports broadcasting by the Long Beach Press-Telegram and the "poet laureate of baseball" by USA Today. This year Scully will lend his voice to Sony Playstation's MLB 2002 video game for the fourth time.

SOME OF HIS OTHER BROADCASTING HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE:

* Three perfect games (Don Larsen in 1956, Sandy Koufax in 1965 and Dennis Martinez in 1991) and 18 no-hitters.
* Johnny Podres' shutout of the Yankees in Game 7 of the 1955 World Series, which gave the Dodgers their first World Championship.
* The Dodgers' first game in Los Angeles at the Coliseum on April 18, 1958.
* The Yankees-Dodgers exhibition game on May 7, 1959 that honored Roy Campanella before a major league record 93,103 fans at the Los Angeles Coliseum.
* The Dodgers' playoff win over the Milwaukee Braves and World Series victory over the Chicago White Sox in 1959, which gave them their second World Championship; and other World Championship seasons in Los Angeles in 1963, 1965, 1981 and 1988.
* Don Drysdale's 58.2 scoreless innings streak in 1968 and Orel Hershiser's 59 scoreless innings streak in 1988.
* Hank Aaron's 715th career home run that broke Babe Ruth's major league record at Atlanta's Fulton County Stadium on April 8, 1974.
* Barry Bonds' record-breaking 71st, 72nd and 73rd home runs.
* The rookie seasons of Fernando Valenzuela in 1981 and Hideo Nomo in 1995.
* Scully, master of the English language, has won numerous awards and honors throughout his career, including being named the Most Memorable Personality in L.A. Dodger history by Dodger fans in 1976.

OTHER AWARDS INCLUDE:

* Named the country's Outstanding Sportscaster four times and California Sportscaster of the Year 24 times by the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association, including being honored at the 2001 California Sportscaster of the Year in 2001.
* Recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Sports Emmy Award from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences in 1996 for his "distinguished and outstanding" work.
* Inducted into the American Sportscasters Association's Hall of Fame in 1992.
* Inducted into the Southern California Sports Broadcasters Hall of Fame in 1997.
* Won the Los Angeles area Governors Emmy Award from the Academy of the Television Arts and Sciences' Board of Governors in 1992 for his special contribution to television in Los Angeles.
* Named the Southern California Sports Broadcaster Association's Sportscaster of the Year in 1991, 1992 and 1994; Broadcaster of the Year in 1984; Radio Play-by-Play award in 1991; and Baseball Play-by-Play award in 1993.
* Named American Sportscasters Association's Sportscaster of the Year in 1985.
* Won the Voice of Vision award in 1992 for his "incredible gift of painting vivid word pictures so those without sight can also see Dodger baseball."
* Recipient of the United States Sports Academy's Ronald Reagan Media Award in 1987.
* Had his star placed on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1982.
* In 1995, had a baseball field named after him in Bogota, NJ, where he resided while working with the Brooklyn Dodgers.
* Received the inaugural Arthur Daley Memorial Award in 1995, which is presented to a Fordham alumnus who has distinguished himself in the field of athletic journalism.
* Had a tribute in his honor from the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences in November 1997.

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ROSS PORTER

Ross Porter, whose tenure with the Dodgers is among the longest of any broadcaster with one major league team, begins his 26th season with the club on FOX Sports Net 2, UPN TV Channel 13 and Fox Sports AM 1150. In addi-tion to his play-by-play duties, he hosts the Dodgers' postgame show and "DodgerTalk". The Dodgers honored Porter’s 25th season with the club with special pregame ceremonies on April 29, 2001.

Porter won the Southern California Sportscaster Association's Tom Harmon Award for Radio Sports Anchor in 1991 and Radio Talk Show Host award in 1992 and 1993. He also won "Best Talk Show" honors at the SCSBA's annual awards in February 1999.

Porter holds the major league record for the longest consecutive play-by-play by one announcer when he called the action in a 22-inning game between the Dodgers and Expos on Aug. 23, 1989. The game, which the Dodgers won 1-0 on a home run by Rick Dempsey, lasted six hours and 14 minutes. For that broadcast, Porter was honored with a Special Achievement Award by the SCSBA in 1990.

A play-by-play announcer since the age of 14, the University of Oklahoma graduate is the only broadcaster to have called the action for both a World Series champion (1981 and 1988 Dodgers) and a NCAA basketball champion (1990 UNLV). He won an Emmy during his 10-year stint as a sportscaster for KNBC TV before joining the Dodgers in 1977. Porter also called National Football League games for NBC TV from 1970-76 and provided play-by-play for the 1977 and 1978 World Series and the 1984 N.L. Championship Series on CBS Radio and the 1988 World Series for the Dodgers' flagship station KABC (790 AM). Porter is one of 24 voters for the Jim Thorpe Award, given annu-ally to the top defensive back in college football.

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RICK MONDAY

Former Los Angeles outfielder and two-time Major League All-Star Rick Monday begins his ninth full season as a Dodger broadcaster on FOX Sports Net 2, UPN TV Channel 13 and Fox Sports AM 1150.

Monday, who joined the Dodgers' broadcast team in 1993, began his broadcasting career as a sports anchor on KTTV in Los Angeles in 1985 while also calling play-by-play and hosting the pregame show for Dodger games on Dodger Vision and Z Channel. He was nominated for an Emmy as host of the Dodgers' pregame show on KTTV's "Dodger Central" in 1988. Monday was also a color commentator for CBS TV at the College World Series championship game in 1988. He moved to San Diego in 1989 and called play-by-play for the Padres on radio and television for four seasons.

The 2001 season marked the 25th anniversary of one of the most dramatic moments of Monday's playing career. While playing for the Chicago Cubs in 1976, he saved the American flag from being burned by two protesters in left field at Dodger Stadium on April 25. Al Campanis, former Dodger Vice President, Player Personnel, presented the flag to Monday after it was used as evidence in the case against the two protesters.

A star at Arizona State University, Monday led the Sun Devils to the 1965 College World Series Championship and earned All-America and College Player of the Year honors before the Kansas City Athletics made him the first player selected in the initial major league First-Year Player Draft.

He made his major league debut in 1966 and spent six seasons with the Athletics and five with the Cubs before join-ing the Dodgers as part of a five-player trade in 1977. Monday played eight seasons for the Dodgers and helped them to a World Championship and three N.L. pennants. Overall, he compiled a .264 career batting average with 241 home runs and appeared in five League Championship Series and two All-Star Games.

The former left-handed hitter is also known for his dramatic, game-winning home run in the ninth inning of Game 5 of the 1981 N.L. Championship Series at Montreal, which gave the Dodgers a 2-1 victory and a berth in the World Series.

In 1995, Monday received the William A. Shea Distinguished Little League Graduate Award, which is given to a Major League Baseball player or individual who best exemplifies the spirit of the Little League Baseball program.

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JAIME JARRIN

Jaime Jarrin, among the most recognizable voices in Hispanic broadcasting and one of two current Dodger Hall of Fame announcers, begins his 44th season as "the Spanish voice of the Dodgers" on KWKW 1330 AM. His smooth melodic voice is also heard on FOX Sports Net 2’s SAP channel. The Dodgers, with Jarrin and longtime English-lan-guage broadcaster Vin Scully, are the only major league club to feature a pair of Hall of Fame announcers.

Jarrin became the club's No. 1 Spanish-language broadcaster in 1973, 14 years after he first joined the Dodgers. Also Vice President, News and Sports for the Lotus Broadcasting Corp., whose station KWKW is the flagship of the Dodgers' Spanish radio network, Jarrin was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame on July 26, 1998 in Cooperstown, NY as the recipient of the Ford C. Frick Award. Named in honor of the former broadcaster and Commissioner of Baseball, the Frick Award has been given annually since 1978 to a broadcaster "for major contri-butions to the game of baseball."

Jarrin became only the second Spanish-language announcer to be inducted into the Hall of Fame, joining Buck Canal. Jarrin was also the first recipient of the Southern California Broadcaster Association's President's Award in February 1998. He was given the highest award by the National Association of Hispanic Journalists in June 1998 and received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in September 1998. On June 21, 2002 Jaime will be inducted in to the California Broadcasters Association Hall of Fame.

His other honors included being awarded La Gran Cruz al Merito en El Grado de Comendado (the highest medal awarded to non-military personnel) in his native Ecuador in January 1992, named as one of the top 100 Influential Hispanics in the United States by Hispanic Business Magazine in 1990 and the first Latin American to win the Golden Mike Award in 1970 and 1971. In January 2000 he spoke at the MLB Rookie Development seminar, which is designed to prepare top minor league prospects for the major leagues.

During the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, Jarrin was in charge of all Spanish radio coverage and produc-tion. He has called more than 30 world championship boxing title bouts throughout the world for radio and televi-sion stations in Latin America. His broadcasts of the All-Star Game, League Championship Series and World Series on CBS, the Latina Broadcasting Network, Cadena Latina and Caracol from 1989 to 1999 were carried on more than 300 stations.

Jarrin studied philosophy, letters, journalism and broadcasting at Central University of Ecuador in Quito. His son, Jorge - "The Captain" - covers traffic for English and Spanish radio stations in Los Angeles.

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PEPE YNIGUEZ

Spanish-language broadcaster Pepe Yñiguez begins his third full season and fifth overall with the Dodgers on KWKW 1330 AM. After covering special broadcasting assignments for the Dodgers in 1998, Yñiguez made his debut in 1999 as a full-time broadcaster while also assisting the club in its community and publicity efforts in Spanish-speak-ing areas. During the offseason the past three years, Yñiguez has hosted "Central Deportiva," a weekly sports talk show airing Sunday afternoon on KWKW. In 2000 and 2001, Yñiguez served as the color commentator for the Caribbean World Series and the 2001 World Series.

Yñiguez has worked for KWKW since 1982 and hosted the Dodgers' pre- and postgame shows, "Hablando con los Dodgers," since 1993. He also served as an occasional play-by-play replacement on Dodger Spanish broadcasts in 1997.

Yñiguez, who was a reporter at KWKW prior to joining the Dodgers, also served as a color commentator for the Los Angeles Raiders' broadcasts from 1993-95 and did play-by-play for FOX Sports Americas at selected Major League Baseball games, the All-Star Game, A.L. Championship Series and World Series in 1997 and 1998.