Charlie Sheen will be the latest star to appear as a guest analyst on ESPN’s Baseball Tonight when the show broadcasts live from the Cincinnati Reds-St. Louis Cardinals game on Sunday night.
The outspoken actor will no doubt be “winning” when he joins the broadcast booth for the Sunday Night Countdown show airing on ESPN at 7 p.m. from the Great American Ballpark in Cincinnati.
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While better known for his hard partying and personal relationships with adult film stars, Sheen is an avid baseball fan and portrayed a player in Major League (plus the subsequent sequel) and Eight Men Out.
Despite growing up in California -- where he was a star pitcher and shortstop for the Santa Monica High School team -- Sheen has been a lifelong Reds fan because his West Wing star father, Martin Sheen, is from Dayton, Ohio.
It has been a long time since Sheen, 48, graduated from high school, but he still roots for his team and posted a photo of the SaMo High Vikings mascot on Twitter earlier this month with a shout out to the baseball team's coach, Tony Todd. He has also reportedly donated tens of thousands of dollars to the school's baseball program since playing there in the 1980s, including buying a new pitching machine in January.
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Sheen convincingly played an ex-con reliever for the Cleveland Indians in both Major League films, and portrayed Chicago's Happy Felsch in Eight Man Out, the biopic about the Black Sox scandal of 1919. Even his marriage to Denise Richards in 2002 was celebrated with a gospel rendition of "Take Me Out to the Ball Park" during the wedding ceremony, and one of the wedding gifts was an authentic Gold Glove trophy.
The former Two and a Half Men star, who later went on to launch his comedy series Anger Management on FX, follows in the footsteps of Jon Hamm, who was a guest analyst on Baseball Tonight during the Cardinals and Pittsburgh Pirates game on May 11 after the ESPN crew joined him on the red carpet for the Hollywood premiere of Million Dollar Arm.
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Like Hamm, Sheen will join Reds legend and Hall of Famer Barry Larkin and Baseball Tonight host Karl Ravech on the set.
Viewers can expect to see more special broadcast events coming up to celebrate the 25th season of ESPN's Baseball Tonight and Sunday Night Baseball, as the network is planning more involvement of famous fans.
