Newly Retired Dodgers Announcer Vin Scully Has Grade-School Speaking Gig

Vin Scully has found ways to keep himself busy in retirement, discussing how he’s gone to the hardware store in the less than two weeks since he ended his 67-year Hall of Fame career as an announcer for the Los Angeles Dodgers.

Newly Retired Dodgers Announcer Vin Scully Has Grade-School Speaking Gig

In addition to watching the team’s playoff games on TV, he appeared on ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live on Thursday night. Scully called his last came on Oct. 2 in San Francisco.

“I went to the hardware store,” the legendary 88-year-old broadcaster said. “I have a very important engagement on Monday the 17th — I am lecturing at the sixth-grade school at St. Mel’s [in Woodland Hills]. I have a granddaughter and a grandson there. We have 16 grandchildren, so you know if I can’t think of something to do, someone out there will.”

Scully taped his interview with Kimmel hours before the Dodgers defeated the Washington Nationals 4-3 to clinch their National League Division Series in five games.

”I expect them to win,” he said.

Scully also discussed his early days broadcasting at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum after the Dodgers moved West from Brooklyn for the 1958 season. Fans carried transistor radios to follow the action described by Sully because they sat too far away from the field in the large stadium. After the team moved to Dodger Stadium, fans continued to bring radios to here him call games.

”I did put most of Southern California to sleep,” he joked. ”The transistor radio went under the pillow. I hear that my entire life now.”

SAN FRANCISCO, CA – OCTOBER 02: Broadcaster Vin Scully waves to fans in the broadcast booth before the game between the San Francisco Giants and the Los Angeles Dodgers at AT&T Park on October 2, 2016 in San Francisco, California. (Photo by Jason O. Watson/Getty Images)