How Vin Scully and the Dodgers faked crowd noise 52 years ago
Crowd noise, without the actual crowd.
That's what baseball broadcasts will feature this season, presented as if it were a cutting-edge concept. It is not. The Dodgers did it 52 years ago. They just didn't advertise it.
On March 23, 1968, the Dodgers played an exhibition in the Bahamas. With broadcast transmission facilities unavailable in Nassau, Vin Scully skipped the trip and called the game from the Dodgers' spring home in Vero Beach, Fla.
"I decided that, since we were going to broadcast it, I would fake it to the nth degree," Scully said.
He got a book on the Bahamas and read from it during the game, as if to share how
