Pull Up a Chair, Curt Smith
Pull Up a Chair, Curt Smith
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Pull Up a Chair
The Vin Scully Story

Author: Curt Smith

Narrator: Don Leslie

Unabridged: 11 hr 34 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/05/2010

Synopsis

Since 1950, the instantly recognizable voice of Vin Scully has invited listeners to pull up a chair for his peerless playbyplay sports reporting. Recruited and mentored by the legendary Red Barber, Scully has narrated NBCs Game of the Week, twelve AllStar Games, eighteen nohitters, and twentyfive World Series, describing players from Duke Snider to Orel Hershiser to Manny Ramirez, with hundreds in between. Scully has made every sportscasting Hall of Fame, received an Emmy Lifetime Achievement Award and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and been named Sportscaster of the 20th Century by the American Sportscasters Association. This long overdue biography of Vin Scully is written by Curt Smith, called the voice of authority on baseball broadcasting (USA Today).

About Curt Smith

Curt Smith is the author of the classic history of baseball broadcasting, Voices of The Game. His other books include Pull Up a Chair: The Vin Scully Story, Mercy!: A Celebration of Fenway Park's Centennial, and George H. W. Bush: Character at the Core. Smith is a senior lecturer of English at the University of Rochester, a Gate House Media columnist, and a contributor to publications from Newsweek to the New York Times. The host of the "Voices of The Game" series at the Smithsonian Institution and the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, he has been named to the Judson Welliver Society of former presidential speechwriters.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Carolyn on May 23, 2009

I am a huge Vin Scully fan, but I found this biography deeply unsatisfying. The author did little but quote from Scully and describe the various Dodger seasons which he announced. I got very little insight into Scully the man, and I found the style of the book disjointed and not a little irritating.......more

Goodreads review by Sue on September 17, 2011

This is one of the most poorly written books I've ever read. It is one of the rare books I didn't finish, even though I admire Vin and still listen to him whenever he announces a Dodger game.......more

Goodreads review by Susan on March 11, 2018

The consensus is not wrong about this book. The longer I stuck through the more I was disappointed in it, even though it did fill some gaps in my baseball history. Some of it is the purple prose, which gets in the way of what Vin Scully did so well, to the point that while listening to the audiobook......more

Goodreads review by Al on May 22, 2010

The book is enjoyable, especially if you are a Dodger baseball fan, however, the author's style is somewhat fragmented and hard to follow which detracts from the overall enjoyment of the book which is well-researched and very factual.......more

Goodreads review by Mickey on February 20, 2014

The author is more a cheerleader for MLB than a biographer. You read the book and have very little knowledge of Scully as a person. Portrayed as a robot. Smith comes off as a total sentimentalist, babbling on endlessly about the MLB Game of the Week as if it is important in 2014. Smith just can't co......more

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