Technically, Vin Scully, who was 25 when he called his first World Series in 1953, is the youngest man to ever call play-by-play for a World Series. However, unlike Sean McDonough and later Joe Buck, Scully was there as a representative of the Brooklyn Dodgers. The policy of World Series broadcasters at the time allowed representatives of the participating teams to do alternating play-by-play on the national television broadcasts instead of an actual network employee (as was the case for Scully when he was NBC's lead baseball play-by-play man from 1983 to 1989).