A Los Angeles Dodgers peanut vendor recognized for pitching peanuts to followers at video games is barred from making his iconic throws this season.
Roger Owens, who started pitching peanuts at Dodger Stadium in 1962, informed the Los Angeles Instances that the stadium’s concessions firm Levy Eating places cited fan security as a cause for the ban.
Owens, whose expertise as soon as earned him an look on “The Tonight Present Starring Johnny Carson,” stated he didn’t need to “choose a combat” with the corporate however is puzzled by the choice, based on the newspaper.
“They've time to see it coming,” Owens informed the LA Instances.
“It’s not some bullet that goes straight by means of. I’m all the time eager to make it possible for whoever I'm throwing to will catch the bag of peanuts. I would like them to catch it, as a result of they really feel a way of accomplishment.”
Owens started his peanut pitching “out of necessity” when a fan yelled for him to toss a bag roughly 60 years in the past, based on a “SportsCenter” profile in 2005.
“I went behind the again, it wrapped round all these individuals within the aisle and got here proper into his hand and everyone began clapping,” Owens informed “SportsCenter.”
“And I used to be form of stunned so I went dwelling and began practising to an invisible man on the sofa.”
HuffPost has reached out to Levy spokesman Kevin Memolo with questions concerning the rationale for the ban.
Peanut pitching bans aren't any stranger to the stadium as bans occurred in each 1976 and 1985, the LA Instances reported.
The stadium, nonetheless, later took these bans away.
Owens informed the newspaper he's “heartbroken” over the newest ban.
“Pitching peanuts to the followers brings lots of pleasure and happiness,” Owens stated.
“This pleasure and happiness hasn’t been there.”
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