LA Angels Seamstress Discusses Her Unique Job

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Erica Ford, team seamstress and laundry attendant for the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, provides a closer look at her job.

Ooo 908 Ab She won't miss reporting for work at 3 a.m. or folding 300 towels once she gets there. She won't even miss the baseball all that much (her favorite sport is hockey). But after 13 years with the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, team seamstress and laundry attendant Erica Ford, who is leaving her post after this season, will miss the friendship of equipment managers and clubhouse attendants, some of whom on the odd off day would deliver a visiting team jersey in need of repair to her home a mile and a half from Angel Stadium, sparing her the trip. So nimble are her sewing skills, self-taught and honed on her daughters' choir dresses and wedding gowns, that Ford has made fans out of individual players around the league. "It doesn't take tons of skill to zig-zag numbers on a jersey," she says modestly, adding of the placement requirements (one inch below the MLB logo for player names, seven inches down for numerals), "In the beginning I was a measurer; now I'm an eyeballer." Paul Steinbach asked Ford, who also works with special-needs children in the Anaheim school system, for a closer look at her (really early) day job.

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