 You want to know who Vin Scully is and what the Dodgers meant to him? Story is he turned down the New York Yankees job in 1964 after Mel Allen was fired, proving you can find happiness away from home. The New Yorker found his place in Los Angeles. Last thing, I have two daughters, and we found out my wife was pregnant with number two right before my dad passed away. He was born and raised in Brooklyn. I was born there. We named her Brooklyn in honor of him and everything it meant to him. And that included, of course, growing up a Dodger fan who were 20 years old,