Scully to broadcast for 63rd season

Los Angeles, CA – Hall of Fame broadcaster Vin Scully will return to the broadcast booth for the Los Angeles Dodgers for a 63rd season in 2012.

Scully made the announcement on the air during Friday's Dodgers-Rockies game.

"I don't want to make a big deal out of it, you and I have been friends for a long time," Scully told his audience on Prime Ticket. "But after a lot of soul searching and a few prayers, we've decided that we will come back with the Dodgers for next year. God's been awfully good to me, allowing me to do things I love to do. I asked him one more year at least and he said okay."

Scully began his baseball broadcasting career in 1950 when the Dodgers played in Brooklyn, and since then has gone on to call three perfect games, 19 no- hitters, 25 World Series and 12 All-Star Games.

His 62 years of service constitute the longest tenure of any broadcaster in sports history. Scully handles all nine innings on Fox Sports Prime Ticket and KCAL 9.

The 83-year-old New York native also announced Kirk Gibson's Game 1 homer in the 1988 World Series, Hank Aaron's record-setting 715th home run, Barry Bonds' record-breaking 71st, 72nd and 73rd home runs and the scoreless-inning streaks of Dodger greats Don Drysdale and Orel Hershiser.

Scully was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1982.