If Scully's mentor and former partner, Red Barber, was the soft - spoken, southern - accented master of the homely analogy — «This game is tighter than a new pair of shoes on a rainy day» — Scully brings to his work the perspective of a philosopher at ease with the human condition, perhaps first formed
by the liberal arts education he received at Fordham University shortly after World War II: «Andre Dawson has a
bruised knee and is listed as day - to - day.