The response has been exceptional, and first-class, with the book as it has featured on various media platforms — some even before the launch on May 1, 2024. Also with those who have come to meet at book stores and elsewhere along the way.
Here’s the continuing list of places and events (with most of the links in the boldfaced dates):
A Sports Illustrated post of the “10 Best Books Released in 2024” includes “Perfect Eloquence” at No. 2, with the description:
There are few sportscasters in history that had the kind of impact on their sport as Vin Scully. And that’s essentially what this 288 page read is about. “Perfect Eloquence: An Appreciation of Vin Scully” chronicles the iconic broadcaster’s 67 year career calling baseball games for the Los Angeles Dodgers. The book is constructed of individual essays penned by 67 peers that Scully impacted. And because of that, it’s overflowing with warmth, appreciation, and admiration for one of baseball’s most iconic voices.
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Larry Mantle, host of “Air Tarlk” on LAist/KPCC-FM (89.3), has “Perfect Eloquence” on his 12 favorite L.A. books of 2024 as a gift giving suggestion.
He writes:
Longtime local sports reporter Tom Hoffarth edited this moving collection of 67 remembrances of the beloved Dodgers announcer who provided fans with 67 years of mesmerizing play-by-play. Contributors include broadcasters Bob Costas, Al Michaels, Joe Davis, Jim Hill, and Joe Buck. Former Dodger players Orel Hershiser, Steve Garvey, and Eric Karros are also here, along with acclaimed sports journalists and former Dodger executives. The essay that affected me most was written by my friend, L.A. Times columnist Patt Morrison. She asked Vin to call our longtime KPCC Morning Edition host Steve Julian as Steve was dealing with the effects of the brain tumor that would take his life. Vin’s message to lifelong Dodger fan Steve was absolutely beautiful and encouraging. Like much of this book, it showed what kind of a person Vin was, beyond his magnificent gift as a broadcaster.
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== March 5-8, 2025: The honor of being asked to present as the keynote speaker at the 32nd annual NINE Convention in Tempe, Ariz.
The introduction to the night by NINE co-host David Pelgram, who did a fantastic job of coordinating audio and visual to a Power Point presentation. And the closing-night banquet to honor “Lion of the League” author Larry Gerlich.
In between the start and finish was a side trip to Surprise, AZ, on the invitation of Steve Rothschild to speak at a gathering at the Del Webb Grand Resort — which also included a visit from Jeff Idelson, the former Baseball Hall of Fame president who is working on a project as the co-founder of Grassroots Baseball and a current documentary “See Her Be Her.”
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University of Nebraska Press posts a one-year book anniversary essay that I was able to pull together — connecting the dots about Scully’s life and the recent passing of Pope Francis.
It is coming up on three years since Dodgers broadcaster Vin Scully passed away in August of 2022, and in the year since my book, Perfect Eloquence, came out, focusing on an appreciation of his life, there have been more things to appreciate. Some are directly connected to the inspirational reflections on the recent passing of Pope Francis.
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== June 14, 2025:
A panel discussion on the day before Father’s Day brought me with Bill Plunkett, Mark Whicker and Lisa Nehus Saxon to {pages: a bookstore} in Manhattan Beach with Chris Erskine.
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== April 26, 2025:
Back at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, at the {pages: a bookstore} booth signing with Bill Plunkett, my former SoCal News Group colleague whose new book “L.A. Story” on Shohei Ohtani attracted visitors who braved the rainy weather with our dry sense of humor:
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== Feb, 20, 2025: An episode of the podcast, “Remembering With Jeff Sammut” includes our half-hour discussion as well as Jeff’s re-posting of an exquisite highlight reel of Vin’s career:
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= March 2025: “Life in the Hollywood Riviera” included this story that also posted online:
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A live discussion of the book with the SABR Clyde Sukeforth Chapter of Northern New England (Maine/New Hampshire) to a sizeable group that included former Dodgers general manager Dan Evans (2001 to 2004) and author Steve Dittmore (“Jim Gilliam: The Forgotten Dodger”).
During the hour-long chat, Evans gave his reflections of his friendship with Scully:
“He’s probably the best human being I met in my baseball career. Don Drysdale introduced me to him when he was doing White Sox baseball and Vin was doing the Game of the Week. So when I came to the Dodgers in ’01 I already had a relationship with Vinny. My first day on the job in Houston, I get on the bus and Vin says, ‘Danny come sit next to me, we’ve been doing it so long so now we can do it officially.’ The most humble, kind superstar I’ve ever met. Fascinating man. So inquisitive. With an ability to go through a recollection of 60-plus years through the game and tell you so many things you wouldn’t believe. When many people are mailing in it, he was stepping on the gas pedal even harder. I was fascinated at how hard he worked. What a joy to sit with him on planes and busses, and he helped me bring a lot of the legends back to the franchise — who’s going to say no to Vin for a lunch on a road trip? Duke Snider, Sandy Koufax, Fernando Valenzuela … Honestly he was exactly who you thought he was. So genuine.
“A quick story: He meets my girls who are maybe 10 and 7 at the time. He finds out through sources my daughters are staying up to watch Dodgers games in Chicago, up until midnight until the game is over. In the middle of one game, Vinny says, ‘OK, it’s 9 o’clock, Sarah and Andie Evans, it’s time for you to go to sleep. We’ve got it from here. When you wake up, check the score.’ They both called me, laying in bed and saying, ‘Dad, Mr. Scully told me to go to bed! What do I do!?’ I said, ‘You decide, but you should probably listen to Mr. Scully.’ After the game in Milwaukee, he said, ‘I hope I helped you a little bit tonight. I know what it’s like. They’ve got to get ready for school the next day.’ I said, ‘Vinny, this is like the voice of God telling them to go to bed. You can’t say no.’ The girls met him a few days later, gave him big hugs and Vinny said, ‘So are you going to bed at 9 o’clock?’ And one of them said, ‘Only if we’re winning.’
“I cherished my time with him. He became a phenomenal friend long after I wasn’t with the Dodgers. It’s probably the person of all my relationships in baseball over 40 years I cherish the most.”
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= Feb. 1, 2025: An appearance on the Baseball and BBQ podcast with host Len Aberman and Jeff Cohen where we talked about baseball, and even some BBQ. And they were kind enough to send me some BBQ tools with the inscription: “Cheers to Vin!”
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= Feb. 7, 2025: An appearance at the South Bay Athletic Club in Redondo Beach to talk about the book and give out copies.
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= Dec. 21, 2024: A signing event at Book Jewel in Westchester with essay contributor Dan Durbin
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= Dec. 14, 2024: Another successful signing event at {pages: a bookstore} in Manhattan Beach.
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= Dec. 1, 2024: A signing event at the Barnes & Noble in Huntington Beach, joined by former LA Daily News colleague Steve Dilbeck.
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= Nov. 15, 2024:
An appearance the South Bay Athletic Club with USC professor Jeff Fellenzer, former USC players John Papadakis and John Mazur, and retired USC sports information chief Tim Tessalone.
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Ron Kaplan’s Baseball Bookshelf notes that “Perfect Eloquence” is back in the Amazon.com’s list of Top 10 Baseball Bestsellers.
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An appearance on a panel of Jon Leonoudakis’ insightful vodcast “Sweet Spot: The Game You Love” on the topic of baseball and gambling, with writer/historian Jacob Pomrenke, writer/umpire Perry Barber and historian Robert Komorowski.
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= Nov. 19, 2024:
The New York Giants Preservation Society, with about 50 members participating on Zoom, hosted me for an hour-plus discussion and Q&A about the life and times of Vin Scully, talking about his admiration for the New York Giants as a kid and believing Willie Mays to be his all-time favorite player (next to Mel Ott). The event was hosted by author Gary Mintz, who wrote the 2023 book, “Baseball From 3,000 Miles Away: The Trials, Tribulations and Triumphs of an East Coast San Francisco Giants Fan.”
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= Nov. 14, 2024:
A guest speaker at the USC Annenberg School of Communications with Professor Dan Durbin’s COMM 383m: Sports, Communications and Culture class as well as Dr. Julianna Kirschner’s COMM 387: Sports and Social change class. Durbin did one of the book’s essays.
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An appearance on Sirius XM Channel 89’s MLB Home Plate show called “Remember When” with Ed Randall and Kevin Kennedy.
Kennedy, an L.A. native who went to Taft High in Woodland Hills and was a career minor-league catcher finishing in the Dodgers’ farm system, before becoming the manager at Boston and Texas before getting into broadcasting, relayed this story about how he was 11 years old listening to Vin Scully doing a Dodgers game and this happened:
“I was in bed listening to a Dodgers-Cubs game — Sept. 6, 1965. I was supposed to be asleep on a school night, but my dad could hear the noise from my transistor radio and came into my bedroom to tell me to turn it off.
“I said, ‘Dad, you might want to listen with me — Koufax has a perfect game going.’ It was about the seventh inning. I said, ‘Dad, please listen with me and we might hear some history tonight together, father and son.’ My dad sat on my bed and we hear the final three innings together as Sandy finished his 1-0 win, striking out the final hitters.
“I remember Vin describing the last out and how Sandy ‘must be the loneliest man in the world’ as he tries to finish off the perfect game, striking out Joe Amalfitano and Harvy Kuenn. Those are memories my dad and I will never forget. That was really special for us.”
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The MLB Network’s “Hot Stove” show hosted by Matt Vasgersian (who wrote an essay for the book) and Harold Reynolds gets into elements of the book in an interview.
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= Nov. 2, 2024:
A review by John W. Miller in the National Catholic Reporter starts off: “It’s no accident that the greatest practitioner of one of America’s most treasured secular liturgies was a faithful Catholic.”
It also includes the endorsement: “(The book has) assembled an entertaining, detailed and assuming history of Scully’s long, charmed life in the form of 67 essays by people who knew him. It’s a terrific read for baseball fans; but it’s also a deeper document about a faithful man, the cultural art form of radio baseball and 20th century life in the United States. … In Perfect Eloquence, Scully’s friends tell stories of virtue and good habits befitting a saint.”
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The prestigious Jonathan Club in downtown Los Angeles hosts a 75-person “Meet the Author” event for its members — which included former Dodgers owner (and book contributor) Peter O’Malley, his assistant Brent Shyer, photographer Jon SooHoo and guests Erin Scully and Catherine Scully, two of Vin’s daughters. Ron Rapoport, who wrote the forward, joined me on stage to field questions about Vin’s insistence not to write a book, his involvement with the film “For Love of the Game,” and why writers in Los Angeles were not apt to be critical of anything he ever said or did — for good reason, there wasn’t any material there to work with.
A supply of books from Chevalier’s also sold out. After the event came a tour of the Dodger Room on the second floor off from the lunch room — blue-felt pool tables, photos on the walls from the O’Malley collection, and shelves of books about the franchise, which will now add this one.
Following up:
Sunday, Aug. 24:
Pastor Steve Davoren at St. Mel’s Church in Woodland Hills used his homily at the 9 a.m. Mass to make a reference to the book while the church was celebrating the 75th anniversary of the Sisters of Saint Louis in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. He was my invited guest to the event. Among his comments, which are found at this link (at the 21 minute mark):
“On Wednesday, I was invited to a luncheon hosted by the former owner of the Dodgers, Peter O’Malley. The reason why we all gathered together was because the author, Tom Hoffarth, wrote this book, ‘Perfect Eloquence,’ an appreciation of the great Vin Scully. It was a wonderful afternoon. The author told the stories about how this book came together. It’s 67 stories from people who worked alongside or had encounter with the greatest announcer of all time. Beautifully written. Through out all these stories is a theme, a thread, about his faith in God, his love for his family and his ability to tell a story that touches your heart.
“I was thinking about this book and the Sisters of St. Louis. If we asked the thousands of people you encountered in your ministry to write a short story of the influence you had in their lives, the same thread would be woven. Your love and service to God. Your love for the families and the people of God and also the amazing ability to weave together all the stories of the people whose lives you have touched. It wouldn’t be a one-volume book, it would take 10 volumes. And I would take the liberty of changing the title to ‘Divine Eloquence.’”
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= Aug. 18, 2024:
A glorious get-together with a gaggle of Hawthorne High Cougar friends and alums who made the trek from all over Southern California to reunite at Glory Days Sports Grill (4132 Woodruff Ave., Lakewood) on a Sunday morning as we watched Clayton Kershaw and the Dodgers post a win in St. Louis on the big-screen TV that fill the interior of the place.
Thanks to my partner in crime, Don Dallons, for organizing all this and getting his friends to get on board, to restaurant owner Dick Brown and his family for keeping the Bloody Mary’s flowing, and to Dave and Jackie Suiter for taking time out of their day to supplying all the books from our friends at {pages: a bookstore} in Manhattan Beach.
We had so many great conversations about Vin’s career — and our own glory days from years ago.
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= Aug. 17, 2024:
Signing books at Barnes & Noble in Thousand Oaks and got to meet up with:
A) an old high school newspaper friend who dedicated her career to the noble journey of teaching,
B) a kind gentlemen named Frank who got the book and has written an essay for the “Readers’ Memories” section,
C) a 3-year-old girl who sang “Take Me Out to the Ballgame” for me and I happened to have some Cracker Jacks for her,
D) a visit from longtime sports talk host Fred Wallin and his wife Sandi…
And E) this guy …
Ron, a realtor from the Valley who has done some home sales for the Scully family and then decided to grab a book and launch into an imitation that reverberated around the building and couldn’t help but generate interest — he didn’t buy a copy (yet) but I promised I’d see if he could do the audio version of the book. Here is his audition:
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= Aug. 14, 2024: An appearance on KSL Sports (97.5 FM) Salt Lake City, Utah on the DJ and PK Show, thanks to my old Daily Breeze colleague and softball teammate Patrick Kinahan:
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= Aug. 7-11, 2024: The book is featured at the SABR 52 convention in Minneapolis. Here’s a post by one of the essayists who spotted it:
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= July 15, 2024: Make no mistake, this was generated by AI:
Sounds like a new blurb for the paperback version.
The reason this even happened on LinkedIn was because a) the social media platform offers this service, free of charge and embarassment and b) this post by Dan Durbin, who happens to have an essay in the book, suddenly popped up as his way of endorsing the book’s structure, if not the content.
Meaning, yes, you can read it on the can.
He summed it up this way:
We are flush with gratitude.
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= July 14, 2024: A lovely guest appearance on the “Speaking Of Writers” podcast with host Steve Richards, creating a solid 20-minute discussion.
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= July 13, 2024: Road trip, and roll the tape — at Eddie Mathews Field in Santa Barbara, the place to see (at least this summer) the legendary National Baseball Council’s Santa Barbara Foresters play their college league schedule, we crash the festivities with Ron Shelton, Paul Vercammen and Jeff Proctor (and had planned to also have Tom Leykis, but unfortunately the local fires caused him to evacuate). The event was promoted by Lance Orozco on the Ventura County NPR station KCLU-FM (88.3) during “Morning Edition,” as well as posts on the Santa Barbara Independent (in two places) and on NoozHawk.com. Copies of the two dozen books sold were provided by Tecolte Books in Santa Barbara.
From our video, we captured these clips of Shelton talking about a home run Eddie Mathews once is said to hit at the field named after him, and then his best Scully story:
And one more story by a gentleman by Ron who stopped by the event and shared more about of some litigation that once involved Scully and actor Sly Stallone:
After the event, and with news dominating other subjects, KEYT Channel 2 News captured some video (understanding, the anchor was really nice to show up, but she wasn’t up to speed on correct names … sorry Ron Shelton/Ron Rapoport):
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= July 12, 2024: An extended appearance on ESPN’s Southwest Louisiana radio affiliates in Lafayette (103.7 FM) and Lake Charles (104.1 FM). Because when you think SWLA, why not go to the real SWLA?
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= July 10, 2024: “Ish” from Riverside is the first caller we’ve heard on 570-AM KLAC’s DodgerTalk postgame show receive a copy of the book, thanks to a give-away promotion executed by host David Vassegh. Who, by the way, eventually points out to the listeners he was not asked to do an essay for the book. Touche.
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= July 8, 2024: An appearance with Maria Serrao on RPVtv in Rancho Palos Verdes for her “Playing The Field” show on Cox Cable 33. Here’s the show:
And here’s the promos for it:
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= July 2, 2024: On “A Tu Hermano Tuesday,” in Hour 2 on the second day of July, it was deuces wild swapping stories with Petros Papadakis and Matt “Money” Smith on the Dodgers’ flagship station, KLAC-AM (570), during the 4 p.m. hour on the “Petros and Money Show.” All while enjoying a stop at the East L.A. King Taco off I-5 in Boyle Heights adjacent.
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= June 28, 2024: Pete A. Turner and his live YouTube “Break It Down Show” had me share the platform with Dan McLaughlin, a Senior Writer for the National Review — and Vin’s nephew. What a treat to know the family finds the book special and to hear his recollections as well. Dan also promoted his appearance at the National Review website.
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= June 26, 2024: “Downtown With Rich Kimball” has me on with Rich and Bruce Pratt to talk about the book on WZON-AM 620 in Bangor, Maine.
Yes, in Bangor, Maine.
(This is after they already did a segment on it for their “Sports Lit 101” show about a month earlier. More Bangor for the buck here.)
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= June 23, 2024: With Jim Hill and Jill Painter Lopez on KCBS-Channel 2’s “Sports Central.” Both Jim and Jill did essays for the book:
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= June 23, 2024: Episode 352 of the “Good Seats Still Available” podcast hosted by Tim Hanlon spends more than an hour talking about the book. Tim was so smooth and did his prep work.
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= June 21, 2004: With Roger Lodge on “The Sports Lodge,” on the Los Angeles Angels’ 830-AM flagship station, prior to the Dodgers-Angels contest. Roger tells his story of having an interview with Vin that’s fantastic.
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= June 21, 2024: Catholic Athletes for Christ host an hour-long discussion about the book, hosted by Kevin O’Malley, who did an essay. The group includes another essayist, Brian Golden, and great stories told by Pittsburgh Pirates broadcaster Greg Brown and Colorado Rockies broadcaster Jack Corrigan:
And if you don’t think Greg Brown hasn’t learned from Vin Scully, see this clip (and the acknowledgment by the person who posted it):
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= June 14, 2024: On Flag Day, the Internet Baseball Writers Association of America posts my essay its Substack platform: “The flag, baseball and Vin Scully,” which highlights Scully’s appreciation of history and patriotism.
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= June 11, 2024: Leslie Zemeckis in The Montecito Journal lists the book among the “Summer Reads” and highlights the piece by local essayist Paul Vercammen
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= June 8, 2024: A column by Jim Alexander / Southern California News Group: “Consider Hoffarth the unofficial archivist of all things Scully. That was the genesis of the book …. essays from people with their own memories of Scully, be it hiding the transistor radio under the pillow at night or having a personal interaction with Vin. … Like most of us who occasionally or frequently showed up in the Dodger Stadium press box, (Hoffarth) had plenty of conversations with Scully, some informal, some in passing, some when Vin would stop at one of the writers’ tables in the press dining room to chat and kibitz and swap jokes. And occasionally we’d set up formal interviews, chances for Vin to pull up a chair and spend some time with us.”
Hey, non-Boomer: This is what a newspaper page looks like:
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= June 4, 2024: A review by Bob D’Angelo on “The Sports Bookie” blog
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= June 3, 2024: A 30-minute visit with the bedazzling crew on “Good Day LA +” on KTTV-Channel 11. Visit Arasyka Karapetya’s Instagram account for more details.
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= May 30, 2024: To end our annual spring baseball book review series, we did our own “Author Q&A” (It’s me, interviewing me, with all the behind-the-scenes drama).
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= May 29, 2024: “SportsLit 101” with Bruce Pratt and Rich Kimball discuss the book on “Downtown With Rich Kimball” on WZON-AM 620 in Bangor, Maine.
Yes, in Bangor, Maine.
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= May 24, 2024: With Fred Wallin and cohorts on Sports Overnight America for Sports Byline USA network.
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= May 21, 2024: “Mason and Ireland Show” on KSPN-AM 710. John Ireland was one of the essayists for the book.
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= May 20, 2024: With Mike Parker on “The Joe Beaver Show” in Corvallis, Ore. Mike was one of the essayists for the book.
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= May 20, 2024: The KCAL-Channel 9/ KCBS-Channel 2 weeknight newscast highlights the panel discussion at the iconic Vromans in Pasadena that includes essayists Patt Morrison, Chris Erskine, Paul Haddad, Sammy Roth, Bob Miller, Fred Claire and Pablo Kay, plus forward composer Ron Rapoport:
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= May 19, 2024: “Vin Scully: A Storytelling Role Model” on JohnMillen.com. John was one of my interview subjects for the book based on his expertise in storytelling.
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= May 19, 2024: A book launch party at Pages: A Bookstore in Manhattan Beach with more than 100 books sold (and many more ordered) thanks to the great turnout from American Martyrs Catholic Church. Also: Check out this Instagram video montage that store owner Linda McLoughlin Figel posted as we sang “Take Me Out to the Ballgame”:
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= May 18, 2024: The book is available at the Baseball Hall of Fame Shop in Cooperstown, N.Y. HOF president and former Dodgers executive Josh Rawitch did one of the essays for the book on Vin’s love of history and patriotism. And I ask: Shouldn’t the broadcasting wing of the Hall of Fame be named after Scully?
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= May 17, 2024: I join essayist Ken Levine on the “I Remember Radio” YouTube channel as he reads his contribution to the book and comes up with even more Vin Scully memories:
= May 16, 2024: Essayist Kevin O’Malley talks to the Arlington (Va.) Catholic Herald. O’Malley did one of the essays for the book.
= May 8, 2024: An interview with Faculti.com (and I am identified as an “Independent Scholar”):
= May 3, 2024: The book is in the Top 10 of baseball best-sellers on Amazon.com
= May 2, 2024: The honor of being a guest for 22 minutes on Larry Mantle’s “Air Talk” on LAist/KPCC-FM 89.3, with Patt Morrison, who did a poignant essay for the book and read some of it. The interview was replayed on Jan. 1, 2025 during a “best of” AirTalk shows.
Here is also our LinkedIn post on that momentous day:
= May 1, 2024: “New and Noteworthy” at Barnes & Noble Manhattan Beach
= April 29, 2024: Essayists Paul Vercammen and Tom Leykis join “Hometown Radio with Dave Congalton Show” on KVEC-FM 96.5 FM for a 20 minute discussion on the book
= April 29, 2024: An excerpt lands on “Off Base With Howard Cole”
= April 26, 2024: A discussion with Eric Nusbaum on the book at The Village Well in Culver City.
= April 25, 2024: A guest in the USC Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism class entitled “COMM 383m: Sports, Communication and Culture” with professor Dan Durbin, one of the book’s essayists. In the class was Will Scully, the grandson of Vin Scully. When asked how he wanted his grandfather to be remembered at the end of the discussion, Will said: “I’ve never known anyone, and I don’t know if I ever will know anyone, who was so in love with his craft. He did it until he couldn’t do it well any more. Sixty-seven years is something I can’t comprehend. He felt he won the lottery. He was so lucky to fall into that position and he also worked harder than anyone else. If you can find something you deeply love, it will take you far.” Will also confessed: Grandpa’s favorite sport was football, not baseball.
= April 20, 2024: At the Pages: A Bookstore booth during the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books.
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= April 19, 2024: A review in The Library Journal: “Verdict: A wonderful and long-overdue tribute to a man whom many consider the best sports broadcaster who ever lived.”
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= April 8, 2024: A YouTube.com interview with Ross Porter for “Ross Porter Sports,” as the former Dodgers broadcaster did one of the essays for the book. Ross’ YouTube page also offers audio clips of my interviews with Steve Garvey, Jessica Mendoza and Bruce Froemming:
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= April 6, 2024: A column titled “Yes, there’s more to say about the late Vin Scully” by Dennis McCarthy for the Los Angeles Daily News: “You can’t help but wonder what stories Vin would have dug up this season as he filled out his scorecard with the names Ohtani, Betts and Freeman penciled in. You just know they would have been great and come with a dollop of applesauce on top — fit for a king.” McCarthy did one of the essays for the book.
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= April 3, 2024: A column by Chris Erskine for ChrisErskineLA.com: “Buy this book and pass it around the family. Or buy several, and share them with your pastor, your bartender, your proctologist, your shrink. Share one with the crossing guard who looks after your kids, or the nurse who’s so good to your dad. I can’t think of a better Father’s Day gift. Like a Bible, every home should have one.” Erskine did one of the essays for the book.
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= April 2, 2024: Five-star reviews start posting on GoodReads.com
= April 2, 2024: On the SABR Bookshelf of best baseball reads this spring:
= April 2, 2024: A review by Lance Smith, aka The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books (five out of five stars): “It’s difficult to add any more praise and adulation for Vin Scully that hasn’t already been said, but this book by Tom Hoffarth does just that.”
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= Nov. 29, 2023: For our project, “Prime Numbers: 101 Jerseys that Uniquely and Authentically Explain Southern California’s Sports History and Create its All-Time Roster,” we assign No. 67 to Vin Scully.
= Nov. 29, 2023: On what would have been Vin Scully’s 96th birthday, a rainbow shows up over Dodger Stadium. It is posted by Jon Weisman, who did one of the book’s essays — the last of the 67 we organized in the nine chapters.
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