Australian sports fans will not only be able to watch the millionaire stars in the Los Angeles Dodgers and Arizona Diamondbacks, but they'll be in the presence of a US media icon.
Vin Scully, the Dodgers' beloved 86-year-old play-by-play announcer, will be at the Sydney Cricket Ground on March 22 and 23 to call the teams' opening games of the 2014 Major League Baseball season.
While the Dodgers' part owner and former LA Lakers basketball star Magic Johnson and LA pitcher Clayton Kershaw, who recently signed a new $US215 million ($A247 million), seven-year deal, were expected in Sydney, Scully was not.
Scully, who has been broadcasting Dodger games for 65 seasons, dating all the way back to when the team was based in New York as the Brooklyn Dodgers, has scaled back his travel schedule to road games played in America's west.
"They asked me to go because they're the first games to be broadcast by Time Warner," Scully told the LA Times.
"So I said, 'Sure, I'll go.'"
US cable TV giant Time Warner paid $US8.5 billion ($A9.7 billion) to broadcast Dodger games for the next 25 years.
Scully holds the record as having the longest tenure of any broadcaster with a single professional sports team.
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