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MLB honors veterans at ballparks across the nation
- Updated: May 30, 2016
Salutes waved across the country on Monday, as the baseball world honored veterans past and present in recognition of Memorial Day.
In Chicago, Julianna Zobrist, wife of star second baseman Ben Zobrist, sang “God Bless America” and the national anthem. On hand were members of the United Service Organizations who unfurled the stars and stripes in center field as a backdrop to the Cubs’ series opener against the Dodgers.
Cubs manager Joe Maddon, whose father served, reflected on wishing he had.
“The one regret I have in my own personal life is that I never did serve,” Maddon said. “At the time, it was very unpopular. The Vietnam War was going on and I was in college, and at the time you thought you were fortunate to not have to do that. Retrospectively, that would be the one life experience that I missed out on that I wish I had done.”
In Denver, the Rockies recognized the USS Colorado, the newest of the Navy’s nuclear submarines — the fourth ship named after the 38th state in the Union, and first since a 1923 Battleship that served during World War II.
A pregame flyover was conducted by the Navy EA-18G Growler Training Squadron, Electronic Attack Squadron One Twenty Nine out of …
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