Vin Skully was a connection to a different time

Aug. 12—Vin Skully, the Hall of Fame broadcaster who described the on-the-field exploits of the Major League Baseball Dodgers for 67 years, was a link to a different era of baseball. Skully, who died recently at age 94, was not a frenzied, bombastic play-by-play man, but a friend in the booth, who described the action on the field with measured animation and restraint. When you're calling 162 ...