Goodbye to Vin Scully, the Voice of Summer

Baseball keeps looking for ways to speed up, but during a remarkable career spanning 67 summers, Vin Scully did his best to slow the game down.

“It’s a mere moment in a man’s life between the All-Star Game and an old-timers’ game,” he once observed, crystallizing why baseball remains the great American metaphor and perhaps why Scully, who died Tuesday at 94, will long be remembered as its best broadcaster.