Dave Roberts Honored By Higher Los Angeles Scouting – Los Angeles Sentinel

Actor and comic Anthony Anderson (left) poses with Dodgers common supervisor Dave Roberts on the Higher Los Angeles Scouting Good Character Gala (Amanda Scurlock/L.A. Sentinel)

Within the wake of the Los Angeles Dodgers successful the 2024 World Collection, Higher Los Angeles Scouting honored common supervisor Dave Roberts at their annual Good Character Gala.

For his management on and off the baseball diamond and his optimistic affect on the neighborhood, Higher Los Angeles Scouting gave Roberts the 2024 Good Character Award.

“It’s an enormous honor provided that it’s from the scouts, however the sentiment behind it,” Roberts mentioned. “Whenever you’re speaking about character, meaning extra to me than something and so to be acknowledged for this award simply places a bow on our improbable season.”

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass introduced Roberts with the award. NAACP Award-winning actor and comic Anthony Anderson hosted the occasion.

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“It’s a wonderful factor to look at [Roberts], what he’s finished with the crew, however what he’s doing in the neighborhood and what the Dodgers group is doing in the neighborhood,” Anderson mentioned. “The issues that we’ve been doing with the youth, specifically in Compton, and constructing fields throughout Southern California, I adore it.”

Higher Los Angeles Scouting was based in 1915 and supplies applications for youth from Kindergarteners to 20-year-olds. Their outside actions enable members to develop management and citizenship abilities whereas constructing character.

Annually, 15,000 girls and boys all through Los Angeles profit from the applications and assets that Higher Los Angeles Scouting supplies. The Good Character Gala helps increase funds for his or her applications.

“Baseball has been a supply of inspiration and unity for Los Angeles, and we’re excited to acknowledge Dave’s management each on and off the sphere,” mentioned chairman of the board and president of Higher Los Angeles Scouting Steven J. Rothans. “He exemplifies the values of the Scout Legislation and is the right recipient of the Good Character Award.”

Roberts has led the Dodgers to 2 World Collection victories since he turned skipper in 2016. The Boys in Blue by no means missed the postseason with Roberts on the helm, making 4 World Collection and 6 NLCS appearances. He’s additionally the 2016 Nationwide League Supervisor of the 12 months.

Not solely did Roberts lead the Dodgers to a league-leading 98-64 file this season, however he was concerned with the efforts of the L.A. Dodgers Basis. In the course of the season, Roberts helped unveil the Jackie Robinson Playbook to the coaches of Dodgers Dreamteam.

“One a part of the group, the Dodgers, is to play on the sphere however the different a part of it’s the fan interplay and doing issues in the neighborhood,” Roberts mentioned. “It is a byproduct of a number of the stuff that I’ve finished, my interplay. I couldn’t be extra proud.”

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