Published on Monday, May 12, 2008
By Dennis McCarthy
"I'd say it was a dream come true, but who would have ever dreamed this? I sure didn't."
- Nancy Colton
So, how was your Mother's Day? Nancy Colton's was pretty incredible.
The Newbury Park mother of three threw out the first pitch at the Dodgers game Sunday, then watched her youngest son, Andy, trot onto the field with first baseman James Loney to his position at the start of the 1 p.m. game.
"Would you hit a home run for my mom?" the 9-year-old boy asked.
Loney said he'd sure try. In his first at-bat, he hit one out.
In the clubhouse seats on Aisle 40, the Colton family went wild, but no one was more excited than the usher standing only a few feet away beaming - Vickie Gutierrez.
If she hadn't been so sharp and attentive a month ago when Nancy returned to her first Dodgers game in a long time after undergoing chemotherapy treatments to battle metastatic breast cancer, this Mother's Day gift would have never happened
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