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American stadium organist

Dieter Ruehle is an American musician who is the stadium organist for Major League Baseball's Los Angeles Dodgers and National Hockey League's Los Angeles Kings.^[1] As of December 2024, Ruehle has played for three championship teams in three different sports: Dodgers in 2020 and 2024; Lakers in 2002, 2009, and 2010; and Kings in 2012 and 2014.^[2]

Major League work

Ruehle has been with the Kings since 1989—taking a six-year break between 1992 and 1998—and has been the Dodgers’ full-time organist since 2016, replacing Nancy Bea Hefley,^[3] for whom he had filled in since 2013.^[4][5][6] He has occasionally played organ for both teams' games in a single day.^[1] When the NHL and NBA played games in China, Ruehle played organ for the NBA games in 2013 in Beijing and Shanghai and for the NHL in 2017 in the same cities.^[7]

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