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Coleman is also the 2005 recipient of the Ford Frick award and has been inducted into the broadcaster's wing of the Baseball Hall Of Fame. His is a heavily modified version, played on the soprano saxophone, in which the initial theme ("Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens...") is repeated again and again, separated by long soloing vamps. In 2005, Coleman reduced his broadcast role, allowing longtime partner Ted Leitner to be the Padres' primary announcer. The jazz musician John Coltrane adopted the tune "My Favorite Things" as his signature tune. Coleman is famous for his phrases "Oh Doctor!" and "Hang a star on that one!". The seven von Trapp children are five girls and two boys: Liesl (16 years old "going on 17"), Friedrich (14), Louisa (13), Kurt (11), Brigitta (10), Marta (6), Gretl (5). Jerry Coleman, former second-baseman for the New York Yankees in the 1950s, has been the Padres' play-by-play announcer since 1972, except in one year (1980) in which Coleman managed the team. Combine this with its success around the world in sales of tickets, videocassettes, laserdiscs, DVDs and its frequent airings on television, it is called "the most widely seen movie produced by a Hollywood studio" by Amazon.uk  (http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005AA0L/qid=1105834994/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_11_1/026-3134903-6248437).

Country western singer Garth Brooks once tried out for the Padres, but was cut in spring training. According to boxofficemojo (http://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/adjusted.htm?p=.htm), the film ranks third in both all-time number of tickets sold (142,415,400) and in gross adjusted for inflation ($911,458,400) in North America (behind Gone with the Wind and Star Wars). The team marked its 36th year on a new playing field, PETCO Park, in 2004. In 2001 the United States Library of Congress deemed the film "culturally significant" and selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry. Despite featuring such notable players as Randy Jones, Dave Winfield, Ozzie Smith, Tony Gwynn, and Trevor Hoffman, the Padres have had limited success, going to the playoffs only three times during their Major League tenure. Despite the enormous popularity of the movie, which at the time became the second-largest grossing picture of all time (behind Gone With The Wind, and has continued through the present day, noted film critic Pauline Kael blasted the film in a review in which she called the movie "The Sound Of Mucus." This review allegedly led to Kael's being fired from her position as a film critic. Currently, their team mascot is the Swinging Friar. The title song's four-line prelude ("My day in the hills has come to an end, I know..."), sung by Mary Martin in the stage play (available on CD), is reduced to an instrumental hint during the overture and dramatic zoom-in shot to Julie Andrews on the mountaintop at the start of the movie.

The San Diego Chicken began performing for the team in 1974. "How Can Love Survive?" was reduced to an instrumental, one of several waltz numbers played at the party occurring just before intermission. His wife, Joan, assumed control of the team until selling it in 1990. A couple of the songs were altered. He died just before he could see his team win their first National League pennant (after dramatically rallying from a 2-0 deficit against the Chicago Cubs in the NLCS) in 1984. One example is that in the play, "My Favorite Things" is sung at the convent. Kroc (founder of McDonald's restaurants) purchased the Padres and kept them in San Diego. The order of several of the songs is markedly different between the stage play and the film.

In 1974, with the team on the brink of relocating to Washington, D.C., Ray A. As pointed out in one of the DVD's extras, the real Maria and one of her daughters can (barely) be seen starting to cross the road at that point. Despite initial excitement and a new playing field at San Diego (now Qualcomm) Stadium, the team struggled, finishing in last place in each of its first six seasons. During the extensive "Do-Re-Mi" segment, at one point Maria and the children run under an archway. In 1969, San Diego joined the ranks of Major League Baseball as one of four new expansion teams. Another error, noted by astute observers who know the geography, is that in the scene where the family is hiking up the mountain presumably toward safe ground, they are actually walking toward Austria. That minor league franchise won the PCL title in 1937, led by then-18-year-old San Diegan Ted Williams. This error cannot be seen in the film itself.

The Padres adopted their name from the Pacific Coast League team which arrived in San Diego in 1936. In some publicity shots for the film, a noteworthy error can be seen in a market scene immediately preceding the "Do-Re-Mi" number: an orange crate is marked 'Made in Israel'; however, Israel did not exist in the 1930s. They are in the Western Division of the National League. The Ländler dance that Maria and the Captain shared was not performed the traditional way it is done in Austria. The San Diego Padres are a Major League Baseball team based in San Diego, California. In fact, the "Sound of Music" itself is virtually unknown in the country, except in backpacker's hostels in Salzburg, where it is screened daily on DVD. Peoria Padres. Many people believe "Edelweiss" to be the national anthem—in fact, this song is nearly unknown in Austria.

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Pitching Saves: 53 (1998) Trevor Hoffman. Playing to 101% of seating capacity, the show set the highest attendance figure for a single week (October 26-31, 1981) of any British musical production in history, as chronicled by The Guinness Book of Theatre. Pitching Strikeouts: 257 (1998) Kevin Brown. Due to an unprecedented demand for tickets, Clark extended her initial six-month contract to thirteen months. Pitching Wins: 22 (1976) Randy Jones. Maria von Trapp herself, present at the opening night performance, described her as "the best" Maria ever. Walks: 132 (1989) Jack Clark. Despite her misgivings that at age 51 she was too old to play the role convincingly, Clark opened to unanimous rave reviews (and the largest advance sale in the history of British theatre at that time).

Hitting Streak: 34 games (1987) Benito Santiago. In 1981, at producer Ross Taylor's urging, Petula Clark signed to star in a revival of the show at the Apollo Victoria Theatre in London's West End. Stolen Bases 70 (1984) Alan Wiggins. Hammerstein died before the film was made, and two of the numbers added to the score were written solely by Rodgers: "I Have Confidence" and "Something Good". Triples: 13 (1987) Tony Gwynn. Robert Wise won an Academy Award for Directing for the film, which stars Julie Andrews as Maria and Christopher Plummer as Captain von Trapp. Doubles: 49 (1997) Tony Gwynn. The film, which was released in 1965, was named Best Picture of the Year.

Runs: 126 (1996) Steve Finley. The Sound of Music, with music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, and a book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse, opened on Broadway at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on November 16, 1959, and starred Mary Martin as Maria and Theodore Bikel as Captain von Trapp. Hits: 220 (1997) Tony Gwynn. Ruth Leuwerik played Maria, Hans Holt was von Trapp. Batting Average: .394 (1994) Tony Gwynn. Two German films, Die Trapp-Familie (The Trapp Family, 1956) and a sequel, Die Trapp-Familie in Amerika (1958), were written by Herbert Reinecker and directed by Wolfgang Liebeneiner. Runs Batted In: 130 (1996) Ken Caminiti. The von Trapps spent some years in Austria after Maria and the Captain had married - in 1927 - they did not have to flee right away - and they fled to Italy, not Switzerland.

Home Runs: 50 (1998) Greg Vaughn. The Captain's eldest child was a boy, not a girl, and the names of the children were changed (at least partly to avoid confusion, as the Captain's eldest daughter was also called Maria). 42 Jackie Robinson (retired throughout baseball). The real Maria was sent to be nurse to one of the children, not governess to all of them. 35 Randy Jones. It should be noted that some details of the von Trapp story were altered for the play and the film. 31 Dave Winfield. However, during a singing performance in a theater, although they are guarded, the whole family manages to flee and walk over the mountains to Switzerland.

19 Tony Gwynn. Meanwhile, the Nazis take power in Austria as part of the Anschluss, and want Captain von Trapp back in service. 6 Steve Garvey. Maria teaches the children singing. Dave Winfield. He was soon to be married to a baroness but he marries Maria instead. Alan Wiggins. The children, initially hostile and mischievous, come to like her, and the woman finds herself falling in love with the captain.

David Wells. In Salzburg, Austria, Maria, a woman studying to be a nun, is sent from her convent to be the governess of the seven children of a widowed naval commander, Captain Georg Ritter von Trapp. Garry Templeton. It contains many hit songs, including "Edelweiss", "My Favorite Things", "Climb Ev'ry Mountain," "Do-Re-Mi," and "The Lonely Goatherd", as well as the title song. Ozzie Smith. The Sound of Music is a Broadway musical and movie based on the book The Von Trapp Family Singers by Maria von Trapp. Gary Sheffield.

Phil Plantier. Fred McGriff. Randy Jones (Cy Young Award winner, 1976). Tony Gwynn (retired 2001).

Rich Gossage. Clarence "Cito" Gaston. Steve Finley. Nate Colbert.

Ken Caminiti. Kevin Brown. Roberto Alomar.   5 Rob Picciolo (third base).

40 Tony Muser (bench). 12 Dave Magadan (hitting). 25 Davey Lopes (first base). 36 Darren Balsley (pitching).

48 Darrel Akerfelds (bullpen). Coaches