Five Urgent Vin Scully Succession Plans

L.A. Must Prepare For Life After the Voice of the Dodgers, Before It’s Too Late

MEMORANDUM

To: The People of Los Angeles
From: The Future
Re: Urgent Need to Deal with Vin Scully Succession

I, The Future, do not typically communicate via memo. But as a Los Angeles native (yes, The Future was born here), I must intervene in the past when my hometown faces a mortal threat.

The mortality of Vin Scully, the Hall of Fame announcer for the Los Angeles Dodgers, is such a threat. Scully binds together Los Angeles like no other living person. He is, as the Los Angeles Times declared in 2008, “this …

The Pitcher and the Poet

Coping with Loss in Baltimore

I never had the chance to meet Mike Flanagan, the former Baltimore Oriole pitcher and baseball executive who took his own life over the summer.

But if given the chance, I …

The Foster City

Why Outsiders Run So Much of L.A.

When I was young and my brother was a little older, we would be in bed before dark on mid-summer evenings. (The times were different then.) We would lie in …

Take Me Out to the Ballgame

But Spare Me the Lies About Anything Being Possible

Baseball, like America, is based on a lie: that the past doesn’t hold us back; that the old ties and old bonds can be cast away; that each new season …