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Services set for Angels announcer Rory Markas

Los Angeles Times staffer Mike DiGiovanna
By Mike DiGiovanna
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The Angels will hold a ‘Celebration of Life’ gathering Thursday night in the Angel Stadium Diamond Club for family, close friends and colleagues of play-by-play broadcaster Rory Markas, who died last week in his Palmdale home.

Markas, who was 54, spent eight seasons in the Angels’ broadcast booth, and was also the play-by-play voice of the USC men’s basketball team. The Diamond Club will open at 5 p.m. Thursday, and the service will begin at 6 p.m.

Markas’ family has scheduled a private memorial service for Friday.

-- Mike DiGiovanna

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Mike DiGiovanna has been covering Major League Baseball for the Los Angeles Times since 1995 and spent 19 years as the Angels beat writer and two seasons on the Dodgers. He won Associated Press Sports Editors awards for game-story writing in 2001, feature-story writing in 2017 and breaking news in 2019. A native of East Lyme, Conn., and a graduate of Cal State Fullerton, he began writing for The Times in 1981.

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