Dodgers And Angels Remember Ronald Reagan
(CNS) – The Los Angeles Dodgers and Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim will mark the centennial of Ronald Reagan’s birth at their games Monday.
Video tributes to Reagan will be shown at both Angel Stadium and Dodger Stadium. The one to be shown at Dodger Stadium will be narrated by the team’s longtime announcer Vin Scully. Fans will receive a packet of Jelly Belly jelly beans, Reagan’s favorite treat, as they leave Dodger Stadium.
Discounted tickets to the Dodgers game against the New York Mets are available online at Dodgers.com/Reagan, with use of the promo code Reagan. A portion of each ticket purchase will benefit the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation.
At Angel Stadium, Assemblyman Martin Garrick, R-Carlsbad, who served in the Reagan administration, former Sen. Dennis Hollingsworth and Washington Redskins receiver Terrence Austin will be honored on the field to commemorate the centennial. Garrick and Hollingsworth are members of the Reagan Centennial California Commission and Austin is a member of the Reagan Centennial National Youth Committee.
The Dodgers and Angels are among 11 Major League Baseball teams that will or have marked the centennial of the birth of Reagan, who was president from 1981-89 and California’s governor from 1967-75.
Reagan broadcast re-creations of Chicago Cubs games for a Des Moines, Iowa radio station in the 1930s. While covering the team’s spring training on Santa Catalina Island in 1937, he took a screen test with Warner Bros. that led to a seven-year contract with the studio and launched his movie career.
Reagan’s other ties to baseball include portraying Hall of Fame pitcher Grover Cleveland Alexander in the 1952 film, “The Winning Team,” joining Scully in the broadcast booth for a portion of NBC’s coverage of the 1989 All- Star Game and throwing out the ceremonial pitch before the Angels 1967 season opener.
