Rally Granny Explains Flash Seen Round The World

LOS ANGELES, CA — Since July when an 85-year-old woman, who's since come to be known as the “Rally Granny,” flashed an unsuspecting crowd of 45,000 people on the Dodgers Stadium jumbotron, the team has gone 27-5. Naturally, few in the superstitious world of baseball fans are questioning why she did it. They just know that it wasn’t long after her now-famous flash that the Dodgers came back from a 4-3 deficit to beat the Kansas City Royals, and a winning streak that propelled them to the top of the league ensued.

The legend of the Rally Granny was born.

Now, Betty True, tells why she did it.

“I’d already been on the camera earlier and all I got to do is raise my arms and show my underarm dangle. And by golly when they locked in on me again I thought, 'Well this is the time to show my cruising moves,' which is a bunch of bumping and grinding, and that's all I know how to do. I can't dance worth a damn,” True explained to the Los Angeles Times. “And then the crowd was going crazy and so I figured I'll just really give them a little treat here, and I just flashed them. Corey (Seager) walked in on for the final run 'cause the bases were loaded and I figure it's because my magnificent breasts had probably blinded the Royals pitchers and they weren't able to find home plate anymore.”

The Los Angeles Times’ Bill Plaschke tells True’s tale. It’s the story of “47 years of one of the greatest marriages on Earth,” and a woman determined to live life to its fullest even if that occasionally means scandalizing her sons by flashing the crowd when they take her to a ball game.

For nearly have a century, True travelled the world with her husband, and together they partied and shared adventures until he died of lung cancer. True vowed to honor his memory by keeping the party going.

“He was a party boy, he encouraged me to party, we just had a ball, an absolute ball, I miss him so much,” she told the Times. “I’m just trying to live up to our reputation.”

For the full Los Angeles Times Rally Granny article, click here.

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