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Jaime Jarrín is going, going — kiss him goodbye!

Jaime Jarrín went from a boy with a "microphonic voice" to one of the greatest broadcasters of all time. This is the story of how he helped bring baseball to Latinos.
Jaime Jarrín went from a boy with a "microphonic voice" to one of the greatest broadcasters of all time.

Jaime Jarrín has done the same job, at the same company, for the past 64 years.

It's not as monotonous as I may have made it seem, because Jarrín, 86, is the Spanish-language radio play-by-play broadcaster for the Los Angeles Dodgers, and he's been at the mic for them since 1959.

This is his hallmark home run call: "Se va, se va — y despídale con un beso!"

In English, it translates to: "It's going, it's going — kiss it goodbye!"

Trust me, it sounds sooo much prettier to hear him say it in Spanish.

The thing is, he won't be saying it for much longer. That's because whenever the Dodgers finish their playoff run, Jarrín is going to call it a career. And what a career it's been.

'I never saw a baseball in my life'

Jarrín's time has served as a historical and generational bridge for Spanish-speaking baseball fans in the city of Los Angeles. He called the Dodgers first World Series win in L.A. in 1959, along with the next two they won in the '60s, the two they won in the '80s, all the way through to their most recent championship in 2020.

His voice, combined with his skill, earned him the highest honor a baseball broadcaster could ever hope for in 1998 when

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