In a WSJ review today in the WSJ of Michael Lahey’s The Last Innocents, a book about those 1960s Dodgers, John Schulian points out some of the plantation politics and economics of the day, when great black stars like Roseboro and Maury Wills were in various ways made to know and keep their place. There are less charming aspects of the time capsule. Leo Durocher, Willie Davis, John Roseboro, and other eminences of the day also star in the episode, which is stitched together with Scully broadcasts.
My sense of childhood summer-nights in Southern California is inseparable from hearing Scully talk about Koufax, Drysdale, et al over the AM radio. As Gregory Orfalea noted in a wonderful appreciation of Scully last month on our site, Scully’s timbre, eloquence, grace, and poetry were the background music of that place and time. It begins with the then-and-still transcendent Vin Scully broadcasting a game. The episode as a whole is worth seeing, for both good and bad time-capsule reasons.
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