The boys in blue have been hitting the streets of Los Angeles County this week.
Dodger greats, and current players, coaches and staffers — as well as employees of team partner Bank of America — have visited every quadrant of the county over the past several days as part of the organization’s 19th annual community service week, dubbed the “Dodgers Love L.A. Community Tour.” The tour, which began Monday and ends Friday, is a sort of prelude to FanFest at Dodger Stadium, which is set for Saturday, Feb. 4
In all, the Dodgers will have volunteered at 10 spots throughout the county by the tour’s end.
On Tuesday, all-star first baseman Freddie Freeman helped deliver food to Long Beach families in need. On Thursday, manager Dave Roberts and former player Eric Karros took a cooking class in Manhattan Beach, while utiltyman Chris Taylor toured Discovery Cube Los Angeles, in Sylmar, with Los Angeles elementary students. Pitchers Tony Gonsolin, Evan Phillips, and Alex Vesia, meanwhile, helped local children shop for shoes at a WSS, on La Tijera Boulevard.
And on Friday, multiple Dodgers are set to host a pep rally at Whittier High School to celebrate the start of the spring semester.
“I look forward to it every year,” Roberts said about the annual tour, “because it gives us a chance to get out there and interact with, whether it’s businesses, just people in general and Dodger fans.”
Roberts and Karros visited a California Pizza Kitchen in Manhattan Beach on Thursday morning to take part in a cooking class with chef Paul Pszybylski.
Pszybylski taught Roberts and Karros, as well as adults from Alexandria Hous — a nonprofit that helps women and children move from emergency shelters to permanent housing — make their own pizzas.
Karros, a Manhattan Beach resident, is the L.A. Dodgers’ all-time home run leader and was National League Rookie of the Year in 1992. (Karros has the third-most home runs in franchise history, behind Duke Snider and Gil…
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