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LOS ANGELES -- As an 8-year-old in the Bronx, Vin Scully would grab a pillow, put it under his familys four-legged radio and lay his head directly under the speaker to hear whatever college football game was on the air in 1936.With a snack of saltine crackers and a glass of milk nearby, the red-haired boy was transfixed by the crowds roar that raised goosebumps. He thought about how much hed like to be at the game. As time went on, he thought hed like to call the action himself.His youthful aspirations came true at 22 when he was hired by a CBS radio affiliate in Washington, D.C. The following year, he joined Red Barber and Connie Desmond in the Brooklyn Dodgers radio and television booths. In 1953, at age 25, Scully became the youngest person to broadcast a World Series game, a mark that still stands.Now 88, Scully is heading into his final week behind the mic at Dodger Stadium before concluding his career on Oct. 2 in San Francisco, where the Dodgers end the regular season against the rival Giants. His 67 years with the Dodgers make Scully the longest-tenured broadcaster with a single team in professional sports.I will miss it, he said Monday. I know that dramatically.Scully discovered his lifelong love of baseball walking home from grade school. He passed a Chinese laundromat and saw the score from Game 2 of the 1936 World Series: Yankees 18, Giants 4.My first reaction was, `Poor Giants, he recalled, noting he lived near the teams home at the Polo Grounds and attended many games for free after school. Thats when I fell in love with baseball and became a true fan.Fittingly, his last game will be 80 years to the day he saw that score in the window.It seems like the plan was laid out for me and all I had to do was follow the instructions, Scully said.Has he ever.Though the years, Scully has entranced generations of baseball fans with his dulcet tones as he spins stories about the game and its players while working alone on the air. He still relishes the crowds cheers, a sound he says is like water out of a showerhead.Scully credits the birth of the transistor radio as the greatest single break of his career. In 1958, he accompanied the Dodgers when the franchise relocated to Los Angeles. Fans had trouble recognizing the lesser players during the teams first four years in the vast Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.They were 70 or so odd rows away from the action, he said. They brought the radio to find out about all the other players and to see what they were trying to see down on the field.That habit carried over when the team moved to Dodger Stadium. Fans at the games held radios to their ears and those not present listened from home or the car, allowing Scully to connect generations of families with his words.God has been so good to me to allow me to do what Im doing, said Scully, a devout Catholic who attends Mass on Sundays before heading to the ballpark. A childhood dream that came to pass and then giving me 67 years to enjoy every minute of it. Thats a pretty large thanksgiving day for me.The Dodgers plan to honor their second-longest tenured employee (behind former manager Tom Lasorda) starting Tuesday night with a Scully bobblehead giveaway.Friday is an appreciation day for Scully with a pregame ceremony featuring speakers from his career and a postgame fireworks show set to the top calls of his career.The first 50,000 fans at Saturdays game against Colorado will receive a limited edition solid bronze coin. On the front is an image of Scully with his signature greeting of Its time for Dodger baseball.In San Francisco, the Giants will honor Scully at his final game. Two Bay Area TV stations will carry an inning of his broadcast as stations in other cities have done this season.All the hoopla is a little embarrassing to Scully, who reluctantly allowed the Dodgers to rename the street leading to the stadiums main gate in his honor in April.Ive never wanted to get out in front of the game, he said.Scully was adamant about not having an extended farewell. To his surprise and delight, players and managers have come to him. Throughout the season, theyve made the long trek from the visiting clubhouse in right field to his fifth-floor broadcast booth in the press box named for him, bringing gifts.He is just a different human being, Cubs manager Joe Maddon recently said. Thats like the window to the world up there, just sitting in his booth. He is really kind and gracious. You have to be all of that to survive that many years and you have to be good.At the start of each series, the umpires turn to face Scullys booth and tip their caps to him.Im deeply touched and overwhelmed with gratitude, he said.For the last time at home on Sunday, Scully will open his broadcast with the same reassuring greeting: Hi everybody, and a very pleasant good afternoon to you wherever you may be.I dont think Im going to stress anything about me, he said. I will concentrate on Denver as if theyre challenging the Dodgers for first place. I think Ill be OK.When he walks away next month, Scully will go home to his wife, Sandi, and delight in the company of his 16 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. Hell still watch some baseball because a couple of his grandsons play.Ill try very hard to just stay back and be the very normal guy that I am, he said. I just want to be remembered as a good man, an honest man, and one who lived up to his own beliefs. 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In fact, this years unit is ranked No. 1 in the FCS and has fueled the three-time defending Southern Conference champions to a No. 5 ranking in the STATS FCS Top 25.There wasnt much movement near the top of the national media poll on Monday, with the top seven teams remaining unchanged: North Dakota State was a unanimous No. 1 followed by Sam Houston State, Jacksonville State, Eastern Washington, Chattanooga, Richmond and James Madison.Chattanooga beat ETSU 37-7 to improve to 5-0 for the first time since 1979. The Mocs surrendered only 132 yards, the fewest they had allowed in over a year. Theyre leading the FCS in fewest points (8.4) and yards (202.8) allowed per game.We talk about playing up to our potential. Thats what we talk about, junior free safety Lucas Webb said. We talk to each other about playing up to our standard. We try to play to what we expect to be as a defense and be who we want to be as a defensive unit.Head coach Russ Huesman was a sophomore defensive back the last time Chattanooga was 5-0. The Mocs seniors, including five defensive starters, have 32 wins in their careers and are one shy of tying the school record.Up next are two of Chattanoogas biggest games. On Saturday, the Mocs host Mercer, which handed them a 17-14 loss last year -- the only defeat in their last 17 SoCon games. It forced them to share last years conference title with The Citadel, which they visit on Oct. 15.North Dakota State (4-0), the five-time reigning FCS champion, just beat the team with which it shared the last two Missouri Valley Conference titles, Illinois State, 31-10 as quarterbback Easton Stick threw three touchdown passes.ddddddddddddThe Bison received 164 first-place votes in this weeks poll.Sam Houston (4-0) routed rival Stephen F. Austin 63-28 in the Southland Conference, while two-time defending Ohio Valley Conference champion Jacksonville State (3-1) had a bye. Eastern Washington (4-1) topped UC Davis 63-30 in the Big Sky Conference. In CAA Football, Richmond (4-1) beat Towson 31-28 and James Madison (4-1) defeated Delaware 43-20.The rest of the Top 10 was Charleston Southern (3-2), which edged Coastal Carolina 59-58 in two overtimes; The Citadel (4-0), a 37-14 winner over Western Carolina; and Montana (3-1), which stopped defending Big Sky champ Southern Utah 43-20.The Missouri Valley had four of the next five spots with No. 11 Northern Iowa (2-2), No. 12 South Dakota State (2-2), No. 13 Western Illinois (3-1) and No. 15 Youngstown State (3-1). CAA member Villanova (4-1) was No. 14.Albany (4-0), which had the weekend off, was No. 16 followed by Coastal Carolina (3-2), North Carolina A&T (3-1), Eastern Illinois (3-2) and McNeese (3-2).Then it was Cal Poly (3-2), Harvard (3-0), Illinois State (2-3), North Dakota (3-2) returning to the poll at No. 25 and Central Arkansas (4-1) moving into it at No. 25.William & Mary and Indiana State fell out of the Top after losses.A national panel of sports information and media relations directors, broadcasters, writers and other dignitaries select the STATS FCS Top 25. In the voting, a first-place vote is worth 25 points, a second-place vote 24 points, all the way down to one point for a 25th-place vote.The Top 25 is released every Monday afternoon during the regular season, except for Sunday morning, Nov. 20, prior to the selection of the 24-team FCS playoff field. A final Top 25 will follow the FCS championship game, which will be held Jan. 7 in Frisco, Texas. ' ' '