by Raechel Fittante
Managing Editor
In honor of being selected as one of the six “Truest of the Blue” fans by the Los Angeles Dodgers over the summer, Sister Mary Dennis Peters, serials librarian for the University of La Verne, was interviewed at her home by KNBC on Wednesday morning. The video footage aired that evening on Fred Roggin’s segment of the 4 o’clock news highlighted the final week of the regular baseball season.
Peters, who has been a Dodgers fan for about 60 years, was actually given the award at Dodgers stadium by the team itself at the June 20 game where they “brought her out to the field in a uniform and put her picture up on the screen,” she said.
Visited by KNBC representatives at the St. Lucy’s Priory School in Glendora, the convent where she resides, Peters, clad in her jersey and cap, got to tell the story of her love for the Dodgers on camera. She and fellow nun Sister Francita Marnell walked the convent grounds with KNBC producer Mike Cunningham and cameraman Roger Harbaugh.
“I used to follow the Dodgers when I was in the Midwest and they were still the Brooklyn Dodgers,” said Peters reflecting on her early adoration for baseball in Kansas where she grew up. “My mother and I used to iron shirts and listen to baseball on the radio.”
For the last 35 years Peters has managed to find the time to attend at least five games a year at Dodgers Stadium, and when she can not attend the games, she and her sisters, who are also Dodger fans, watch the games on television from the “Dodger dugout.”
The “dugout” is the ballroom on the bottom floor of the convent mansion which was devoted in past years to promotions where the sisters gave out free Dodger tickets to “A” students from high schools in the area.
She said being selected for the “Truest of the Blue Award” was the thrill of a lifetime that “I owe all to my mother.”
“I feel a very close tie with all of the Dodgers,” Peters said. “They’ve all had great gentlemen as their managers, past and present. I’ve changed my residence but not my allegiance.”
She continued, “There’s Dodger loyalty that doesn’t belong to any other team-the fans always come back.”
When asked by Cunningham if she and the other sisters give the Dodgers a little extra push through prayers, Peters shook her head yes and said, “He’s the big Dodger in the sky, don’t you know?”
Journalism operations manager at the University of La Verne. Production manager and business manager of the Campus Times.
