Dick Vitale Sings The National Anthem

ESPN's own Dick Vitale, Mr. College Basketball or something, threw out the opening pitch at tonight's Sky Sox game:

Kind of high up there. Maybe it was a jump shot.

We all know he loves him some college basketball, but Dick is also a huge baseball fan, with season tickets to the Tampa Bay Rays (a good baseball team with one season ticket holder, Dick Vitale!) and stopped in to watch the Sox take on the Salt Lake Bees between motivational speeches at the Broadmoor.

I didn't know Dickie V was going to be there so I shot the first pitch from the press box while eating my tasty dinner from Carino's. I got there late due to it being Free Car Night. You know the Free Car Night which everyone that wants to win a car arrives by, wait for it, car, and clogs up the surrounding streets. So, I could have run down and shot it, but I didn't out of spite.

When I did get down to the field, it was just before he was to sing the National Anthem with the America the Beautiful Chorus. Wearing their trademark black slacks and red polos the AtB Chorus always looks sharp, and delivers a great Anthem. Well done gentlemen!

Dick Vitale, Cole Chisholm and the America the Beautiful Chorus
just before they sang the National Anthem.

Mr. Vitale posed for every requested picture and gave every interview with a smile on his face. He was one of the most giving, magnanimous celebrities I've come across. A class act all the way. 

Here is the publicity still from Dick Vitale's
upcoming sitcom on ABC,
Dickie V and Tony E!

Dick also talked about his new sitcom he's staring in along with Sky Sox GM Tony Ensor, Dickie V and Tony E! The show will follow the hijinks of a minor league baseball GM forced by ownership to hire Dick Vitale as his on field manager while a court order resulting from a police mix up forces them to live together in a luxury suite above the stadium. The clubhouse, and baseball, will never be the same baby! Look for it this Fall on your ABC family of networks.

Dick is 74 years old and has an engine on him like a 20 year old. The man is a class act and made a fan for life of this cynical old photographer. Rock on Dickie V! Rock on indeed baby!