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Angel
Stadium, the fourth oldest active Major League
Baseball stadium, was selected to host the 2010
Major League Baseball All-Star Game.
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The
stadium also houses the studios and offices of
the Angels' owned and operated flagship radio
station, KLAA (830 AM).
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Famous
individual baseball milestones attained here include
Mickey Mantle's last game-winning home run, Nolan
Ryan's striking out of nine straight Boston Red
Sox, Reggie Jackson's 500th career home run, Rod
Carew's 3,000th career base hit, Vladimir Guerrero's
400th career home run, and George Brett's 3,000th
career base hit.
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The
Disney remake of Angels in the Outfield
(1994) prominently uses the ballpark, however,
many of the interior shots were filmed at the
Oakland-Alameda Coliseum.
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The
stadium served as a stand-in for Candlestick Park
for filming of The Fan (1996 film) and
a scene from Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo also
was filmed here.
