Goin' All In!
A Business Documentary/VIRTUAL REALITY SHOW
ENTER STAGE RIGHT: June.97
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Former Seattle Mariners All-Star Harold Reynolds served as an analyst on ESPN’s Baseball Tonight, as well worked select game telecasts. He joined ESPN for the 1996 season. In 2000, he added ESPN2’s new Sunday afternoon Baseball 2Day to his duties. Fired in July 2006.
Noted New York Post and TV Guide columnist Phil Mushnick wrote on April 9, 1996, just two weeks into Reynolds’ job, "if ever an ex-ballplayer radiated star quality in his initial TV appearances, he’s Harold Reynolds . . . he comes across as comfortable, creditable and charming."
An example of Reynolds’ journalistic instincts were strongly in evidence less than two months into the job. Attending a game at Yankee Stadium as a fan in May of 1996, he witnessed Doc Gooden’s no-hitter. As the game ended, he borrowed a blazer from a Yankee front office executive and obtained the first post-game interview with Gooden.
The switch-hitting second baseman was a three-time American League Gold Glove Award winner during his 10 years with Seattle. Reynolds closed out his career with the California Angels in 1994 after spending 1993 with the Baltimore Orioles.
Reynolds, a two-time All-Star during his 12-year Major League career, attended San Diego State University and Canada College (Calif.) before becoming the number one draft pick by the Seattle Mariners in 1980.
Off the field, he’s received numerous honors, including being chosen as one of then-President George Bush’s "1,000 Points of Light," and most recently being selected as one of the Jaycees’ 10 young achievers.
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