By Andy Peters, Staff Reporter
When the late Gene Autry moved his upstart Los Angeles Angels baseball team to Orange County in 1966, he rechristened the team the California Angels. Autry, a movie star who had founded the Angels in 1961, moved his team near Disneyland partly at the urging of his close friend, Walt Disney. Autry changed his team’s name to give them a separate and distinct identity from the storied Los Angeles Dodgers.
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