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Column: Ted Leitner, a Padres constant, to mark 40th season with ceremonial pitch

Someone on Wednesday night will hand Ted Leitner a baseball.

In honor of his 40th season on the job, the Padres radio broadcaster is to throw a ceremonial pitch before the team faces the Dodgers.

Leitner, who’s to take aim at 6:58 p.m., somewhere near the mound at Petco Park, said he’s grateful to have called Padres games since 1980.

“It’s not so much that I’m proud of it; I’m just glad, lucky, happy,” he said in the broadcast booth at Petco Park before Tuesday night’s game. “And the truth is, I enjoy it now more than ever, and I don’t know why.