Vin Scully suggests next season will be his last

Life magazine

KPCC reports that in a recent interview, Vin Scully said that he's leaning toward retirement after the 2014 baseball season. He will turn 86 next month. "I’m pretty well sure – and I don’t want to go back and forth with it – but I’m looking to next year and thinking that should be about it,” Scully said, according to the station's Ben Bergman. Scully reiterated that he does not want a street named for him, as Mayor Eric Garcetti suggested, but after 65 seasons and unrivaled status as a community bridge in Los Angeles it's pretty obvious something will be done. “I believe we need to pay tribute to this man who has given us in many ways our sports soul for half a century," Garcetti said in the KPCC story. "There are times – even against people’s protest – that a city needs to do that.”