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It's a beautiful Sunday afternoon here in
Los Angeles, and I always remember coming

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to Dodgers Stadium and would be extra
excited on a Sunday afternoon day game when

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Oral Hersheizer the Bulldog would be scheduled
to pitch that day, and usually the

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Dodgers would win, and Oral Herscheizer
joins us. Now winning every day on

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Sports at LA. Thanks a lot
for the time, Bulldog, appreciate it.

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I appreciate you, Dave every day. Let's see if we play one

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hundred and sixty two plus spring training
plus the postseason. I'm doing ninety regular

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season games. Eric Carross does a
few, just Co Mendoza does a few.

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Joe goes away from US every once
a while to do his national stuff.

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And today I'm working with Stevens,
so this is going to be a

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good day. Hey. Speaking of
Eric Harros, he was mentioning your name

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on this last road trip where there
was a rain delay, there was a

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doubleheader and a plane flight delay.
He was saying, the veteran head of

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Oral Hersheizer knows what trips to take
off. So even the younger Kiros is

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still appreciating the veteran leadership did you
mention the B game that he went through.

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Did you mention some of the other
delays? You know what, e

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K. I broke him in a
little bit. I remember calling him over

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to the mound on my thirty second
start because I had come back from shoulder

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surgery, so there were incentives in
my contract and from the last from thirty

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two to wherever I ended up with
a number of starts, I was getting

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a quarter of a million dollars per
start. So I warmed up for that

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thirty second start and he was at
first base, and right before the first

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pitch, after I warmed up,
I called him in and I said,

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hey, come here, pick up
the rosenbag and pretend like you got something

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really good going on over here,
and we're talking about something. But I

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just want you to know when I
throw this first pitch, I'm going to

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make more money with that pitch than
you do all year. Now get back

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to first base, kid, and
I get back to first base. But

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that's the kind of relationship we have, So I understand why he's saying that

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veteran guy got me again. All
these years later. It feels like he

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still has that same reverence for you. Well, you know, Tommy was

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very good. Dave Roberts is amazing
at creating a culture where the veterans.

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Actually there is a little hazing back
in our day. But the hazing was

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all in fun. It was not
to hurt anybody. It didn't hurt anybody.

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Of course, you're not going to
hurt somebody who's playing in the big

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leagues. But it was there for
respect, it was there for fun.

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It was there to make them feel
like wanted and a lot of times,

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even in my businesses today, you
know, I'm part owner of about seven

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companies. I tell people, if
I don't kid you, that means I

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don't like you. So if I'm
kidding you, don't worry. That's a

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form of baseball love. Speaking of
one of Oral Herscheiser's businesses in Claremont,

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California, Foothill Boulevard, You've opened
up a memorabilia shop. Tell us about

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it, and it seems like it's
more than just coming to buy an autograph

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photo. Yeah, it really is
a very eclectic place. It's twenty five

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hundred square feet, six different rooms
that we have, and some of the

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rooms they are dedicated to specific things, like we have a Dodger room,

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and of course it's painted Dodger blue. And we have a Laker room.

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Of course it's in Lakers colors.
We have a football helmet room, of

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course that is mostly NFL and college
football helmets that are autographed. And we

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have a main room, and we
have a miscellaneous room, and we have

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a wall that's dedicated to celebrities like
Frank Sinatra, Britney Spears and others.

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So yeah, it's a museum,
a gallery, a baseball card store,

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a game used equipment store, a
baseball autograph store. It's everything. And

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a lot of the stuff came from
when the Dodgers honored me as a legend.

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We got all of my stuff out
of an attic and it was like

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in storage and people weren't seeing it
because we had just moved into a new

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house a few years ago and I
never really pulled it out of the boxes.

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So the Dodgers put me in the
legends and they're like, we want

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to have a display. Can we
get some of your memorabilias. So I

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pull it all out, we give
it to the Dodgers. They make a

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display up there on the fifth floor
by the offices. And now that display

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has been gone down and my partners, who own a lot of memorabilia,

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and their wives are probably saying,
can we get rid of some of this

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because it's taking over the house?
Said, you know what, the people

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should be seeing this. It shouldn't
go back to your house. And I

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go, you're right. So that's
how portions of it became kind of a

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museum. We have an in house
relationship with Dave Hobrick, the world famous

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artists. So it's a very nice
place and I would appreciate if people come

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by, because it's not necessarily about
always you're going to buy something as much

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as you're going to get to see
and experience some great stuff. Legends,

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Addict and Claremont. You can find
it on six nineteen West Foothill Boulevard,

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and you never know. You may
show up and the Bulldog or all herscheizer

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might be there. And you know, obviously we say memorabilia when it comes

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to your personal items, but you
left your arm on the mound at Dodgers

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Stadium. I feel when I look
at your trophies that that's a piece of

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history. Do you look at it
the same way? I guess yes,

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I do. You know, the
old you get, the more you capsulize

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things that happened in your life.
And in opening the store and having the

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museum slash gallery there, I think
it's all about the story. I think

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that's why people want to go.
That's why people own baseball cards, or

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own memorabilia, or want to get
an autograph ball, or want a painting

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of a special moment. It reminds
them of something. It's a memory of

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a happy time, of a time
when they rooted for things. We've had

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a soft opening there in the last
two days or so. We're not opening

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to the public till June fourth,
But one of the most talked about pieces

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there is Kirk Gibson in the on
deck circle, not hitting the home run

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and actually be in the batter's box
or having the ball land in the right

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field pavilion, but Gibson getting ready. And the reason I've told our guys

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is like, that's probably because that
is the biggest impactful moment in their baseball

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life as a fan. And so
it really has kind of steered me in

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how we need to flavor the store. And it's not just about favorite players.

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It's not just about telling a story
about a person. But it could

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be an iconic moment, and Gibbie
is cemented in everybody's mind because of that.

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At bat no doubt orl Herscheizer is
our guest. He is the proud

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owner of not only a memorabilia shop, but certainly a museum of great items

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like he just described legends Attic six' nineteen West Foothill Boulevard in Claremont,

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California. When you talk about images, I still have the Herald Examiner the

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day that you struck out Harold Howard
Johnson to send the Dodgers to the World

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Series. I feel like I've seen
on your social media you may have a

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piece of that moment. Yeah,
I do. We we have themes in

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the room, and I have a
theme wall in the Dodger room of an

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eight year old boy pictured which is
me winning a contest when I was living

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in Southfield, Mission and I was
a throw, hit and run contest sponsored

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by Persona Razor Blades. And we
have that picture framed of me with the

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trophies and the article that appeared I
think in the Detroit Free Press. And

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below that is the contract for three
years seven point nine million dollars over three

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years total for being the highest paid
player in the game, and between that

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eight year old and that highest paid
player in the game contract is a guy

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getting cut from his high school team
till his junior year, guy getting cut

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from his college team till his junior
year. There's four and a half years

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in the minor leagues as a seventeenth
round draft pick. There's winter ball in

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Arizona, two years Venezuela, Dominican
Republic. There's reconstructive arm surgery after that

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contract. There's just a lifetime of
stories in between those two items, and

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that's why they're together. Another portion
of the room is four items together,

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which is the moment you talked about, which is some people have called it

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the first Tebow when I knelt down
in front of the mound on our way

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to the World Series beating the Mets. And then right below that is me

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getting my World Series trophy and the
ring that's in the box that I'm carrying,

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and right below that is the cy
Young that I got that day,

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and right below that is Bill White, the National League President, giving me

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the cy Young. So there's a
theme and a story because it is all

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about the story. Love it.
You just gave us a little inside look

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as far as the Tour of Legends
Addict and Claremont ORL thanks a lot for

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the time. We love you and
we're so happy that you're still part of

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this organization because you mean so much
to it. Well, this is everything

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that I do, Dave right now
is really to give back. And even

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though you want a business to be
successful for your partners and for the people

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that work there, it really is
my good housekeeping seal of approval is to

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make sure we're doing the right thing
for the fans and the people. No

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doubt, Orl's never forgot the fans. Thanks a lot, and we'll see

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you later today on Sports and at
LA. Hopefully the Dodgers get a win

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on this Sunday Light the Bulldog use. Yeah, let's do it quick because

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I have a charity event to go
to for Clayton Kershaw. I'll let Eric

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Carroll snow. Yeah, it'll be
really nice. It'll be a quick game,

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Eric, and you'll be fine.
Hey, Brad Paisley's going to be

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there, say hello, Oh really, Brad's gonna be there. I wonder

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if he's going to play any music. You never know. I should bring

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a harmonica or a guitar just so
he makes sure he does, sounds good.

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Oral, thanks a lot for the
time you got it. You might

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see Oral herscheizer at the Legends Addict
in Claremont. It opens June fourth,