Where Have You Gone, George Plimpton, Vin Scully and the Ambassador Hotel?

In 1951, Bobby Thomson was 28 years old, the Ambassador Hotel was 30 years old, George Plimpton and Vin Scully were 24 years old. Plimpton was still years away from writing his classic books Out of My League and Paper Lion. Scully was the third man on the Brooklyn Dodgers broadcasting team that included Red Barber and Connie Desmond. He was years away from being the greatest play-by-play voice in baseball history. The Ambassador Hotel, featuring the Coconut Grove nightclub, was one of the world’s most notable lodgings, but it became infamous and, ultimately, extinct. And Joe DiMaggio called it quits on December 11, days after his 37^th birthday.

 

Joltin’ Joe, Bobby, the Ambassador, George, and Vin…where have you gone?