
"Get Your Programs!"
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You know you’re at a Chattanooga Lookouts game when you hear Wanda the Program Lady.
“Get your programs!” has echoed the concourse at Lookouts baseball games for decades, an energetic welcome to fans of all ages. Wanda Goins, The Program Lady, has been with the Lookouts for so long, she is synonymous with the ballpark itself. You can’t come to a game without meeting Wanda and seeing her smile.
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"Get Your Programs!"
Special | 4m 43sVideo has Closed Captions
“Get your programs!” has echoed the concourse at Lookouts baseball games for decades, an energetic welcome to fans of all ages. Wanda Goins, The Program Lady, has been with the Lookouts for so long, she is synonymous with the ballpark itself. You can’t come to a game without meeting Wanda and seeing her smile.
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Well, I've just always been a people person.
Wanda was down in the concourse and I heard this voice.
I went, Oh, my gosh, who is that or what is it?
Oh, wow.
That that's a set of vocal cords and lungs that's going to sell something.
And sure enough, she did.
Right here.
My cousin called me and asked me, do I Want to work the Jimmy Buffett concert at the old stadium?
So I said, Yeah, I don't care.
So we went there and there we worked the lady that worked at that at the time, she said, You know, You want to come work at the Lookouts?
I say, I don't care.
So I've been working ever since.
Right Here!
I used to sell them.
Then I used to give them away.
Now they got to scan.
Well I have to bats with a barcode on them.
So I hold them up and I tell them, Scan your program right here.
Wanda's the best.
She she loves everybody.
I've not met a person that does not love Wanda back.
We have been going to Lookouts games since Engel Stadium, and Wanda was a fixture at Engel stadium, just like she is here.
The amount of hugs she gives out every night is just amazing.
She's just.
She brings so much life to our front gates.
Every single night.
I remember being younger than her and coming in and it's always 25 cents get your program.
They say, I remember you when I was a little bitty boy.
I see.
Now you want to tell my age.
take a picture with me, you know, they real good, I love them.
Oh, I.
It's just it's like a statue out front.
She's here every day.
It's rare that she hasn't been here.
I think being that fixture, she's as synonymous with the ballpark as you can get.
I used to holler and say get your programs, you can't tell a player without a program there.
And after that, it was just $0.25 and now they're free.
Not 25 cents, free.
Twenty-five cents, free, get your program.
You know, you're at a Lookouts game, as soon as you hear Wanda, you know, you're home.
I enjoy I love my fans.
I enjoy it and just enjoy of, you know, talking to them and hugging them and, you know, you'll have people leave here bragging about meeting Wanda.
The program lady.
Well, we wasn't going to have no paper programs anymore, so they come up with a barcode scanning on your phone.
I guess cause of Covid, you know.
Yeah, because of Covid.
Come here, baby.
I'm kind of sad because I used to get a brand new one or one every month when they came out.
It's the world we live in, we don't like the digital.
We'd much rather have something you can taste, feel and smell and get signed by the players right here changes.
I can handle the changes, you know, that's just life.
You know, keep on living we have some more changes, when she's gone, there won't be another program, lady.
Her legacy will be that she loved the lookouts, just like she loves this city and the people that she comes in contact there.
And that's her legacy.
And there'll probably be a statue out front her holding a program just 25 cents.
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