Special Super Dodger Dog, Maury Wills Bobble Head

By BEA KARNES (Patch Staff)

A special loaded hot dog will be available at Dodger Stadium throughout the Los Angeles Dodgers’ four-game series against the Philadelphia Phillies, which begins tonight.

The Philly Cheesesteak Dog is a quarter-pound all-beef Super Dodger Dog topped with shredded beef sirloin, sauteed onions and cheese whiz. It will be available at the Extreme Loaded Dog concession areas on the field, loge and reserve levels.

The first 40,000 fans in attendance will receive a bobblehead of Maury Wills, who helped lead the Dodgers to World Series championships in 1959, 1963 and 1965 and was selected as the National League’s MVP in 1962, when he set a since-broken major league record with 104 stolen bases.

Wills will also throw the ceremonial first pitch.

Matt Luke, an outfielder-first baseman with the Dodgers in 1998, will sign autographs in the left field pavilion plaza from 5-7 p.m.

The national anthem will be sung by Chris Mann, who was fourth in the 2012 spring season of the NBC singing competition “The Voice” and now plays the title role in “The Phantom of the Opera,” which is playing at the Hollywood Pantages Theatre through Aug. 2.

The Military Hero of the Game will be retired U.S. Air Force Maj. Gen. Marvin Barry.

Barry is a Vietnam War and Operation Desert Storm veteran, the mobilization assistant to the to the commander of the Air Force Reserve, chairman of the Air Reserve Forces Policy Committee and director of the Pentagon’s Air Force Crisis Action Team.

Auto gates will open at 4:40 p.m. and stadium gates at 5:10 p.m. for the 7:10 p.m. game. Pregame ceremonies will begin at 6:50 p.m.

--City News Service; Image via LA Dodgers