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Broadcasting legend Vin Scully - the 'voice of the Dodgers' who called the iconic team's baseball games for 67 seasons - has died at the age of 94.

Scully died at his home in the Hidden Hills section of Los Angeles, according to the team, which spoke to family members. The hallmark of Scully's career was a storytelling style combined with what he called 'kind of a running commentary with an imaginary friend,' he once told the Los Angeles Times in an interview.

In a statement posted on Twitter late on Tuesday night, the Dodgers said: 'He was the voice of the Dodgers and so much more.

'He was their conscience, their poet laureate, capturing their beauty and chronicling their glory from Jackie Robinson to Sandy Koufax, Kirk Gibson to Clayton Kershaw.

'Vin Scully was the heartbeat of the Dodgers - and in so many ways, the heartbeat of all of Los Angeles.'

'We lost the greatest ever to do it,' Dodgers play-by-play man Joe Davis, who succeeded Scully, said during Tuesday night's broadcast.

Scully started calling the Dodgers games back in 1950, when the team was based in Brooklyn. He followed them to Los Angeles in 1958.

As the longest tenured broadcaster with a single team in pro sports history, Scully saw it all and called it all.

He began in the 1950s era of Pee Wee Reese and Jackie Robinson, on to the 1960s with Don Drysdale and Sandy Koufax, into the 1970s with Steve Garvey and Don Sutton, and through the 1980s with Orel Hershiser and Fernando Valenzuela.

In the 1990s, it was Mike Piazza and Hideo Nomo, followed by Clayton Kershaw, Manny Ramirez and Yasiel Puig in the 21st century.

The Dodgers changed players, managers, executives, owners - and even coasts - but Scully and his soothing, insightful style remained a constant for the fans.

Scully retired in 2016 at the age of 89. In January 2021 his wife Sandi of 47 years passed away and their bond was mentioned by Dodgers president Stan Kasten in paying tribute to Scully late Tuesday.

'We have lost an icon,' Kasten said. 'Scully was one of the greatest voices in all of sports.