Ron Perlman Instagram – What a great life looks like… Repost from @petesouza • RIP Vin Scully, shown here looking at his Presidential Medal of Freedom, seconds after it was presented by President Obama in 2016.⁣ ⁣ Here is what the President said about Vin that day:⁣ ⁣ “The game of baseball has a handful of signature sounds. You hear the crack of the bat. You got the crowd singing in the seventh inning stretch. And you’ve got the voice of Vin Scully. Most fans listen to a game’s broadcast when they can’t be at the ballpark. Generations of Dodger fans brought their radios into the stands because you didn’t want to miss one of Vin’s stories.⁣ ⁣ Most play-by-play announcers partner with an analyst in the booth to chat about the action. Vin worked alone and talked just with us. Since Jackie Robinson started at second base, Vin taught us the game and introduced us to its players. He narrated the improbable years, the impossible heroics, turned contests into conversations. When he heard about this honor, Vin asked with characteristic humility, ‘Are you sure? I’m just an old baseball announcer.’ And we had to inform him that to Americans of all ages, you are an old friend. In fact, I thought about him doing all these citations, which would have been very cool, but I thought we shouldn’t make him sing for his supper like that. ‘Up next.’ – (Laughter.)”⁣ ⁣ ⁣