ALL-STAR GAME: PARTY TIME : Power Players Make Baseball Festivities Big-League Events

What tops having a ticket to the All-Star baseball game tomorrow night?

For a society-style grand slam, you also need invitations to these four parties: a brunch at the Anaheim Hilton on Tuesday morning, a pre-game feast at Anaheim Stadium, a post-game blast at the stadium, and the “Cowboy Boots ‘n’ Ears Revue” at Disneyland tonight.

Now, if you’re not affiliated in some way with the Major Leagues, the Angels, Anaheim Stadium or Disneyland, your chance of getting invited to all four parties is about as slim as sitting front-and-center in stadium owner Gene Autry’s personal box.

For the likes of hundreds of local All-Star game movers and shakers and those on the Major League circuit, the game means far more than a one-night stand in a jam-packed stadium. It means the chance to rub elbows at high-powered gatherings and bask in the thrill of it all. It means the chance to get close to baseball Commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti, Autry, the All-Stars, the Old-Timers and the Hall-of-Famers. And for some, it means the chance to just party down .

Talk about a field of dreams. For tonight’s “Boots” bash, hosted by Giamatti, the Magic Kingdom’s parking lot will be transformed into a rompin’, stompin’, sawdust-kickin’ Western town.

Even Giamatti is excited. “This is my first All-Star game as a commissioner,” he said from his New York office last week. “So I’m really looking forward to the game and all of the fun attached to it. The gala at Disneyland will be especially exciting because it’s a salute to Gene Autry.”

For the tribute to Orange County’s bat-and-ball-loving cowboy, 2,000 guests will be shuttled by bus from five area hotels to attend the “Boots ‘n’ Ears Revue,” named for the symbols of Autry and Mickey Mouse.

First on the agenda: Guests will be seated family-style (that means no reserved seats) at tables for 10 inside canvas walls set up next to buckboards, wagons and bales of hay. Party favors? Cowboy hats sprouting Mickey Mouse ears, of course.

Next, a “Seven Brides for Seven Brothers” hoedown will be performed to put guests in a Western mood. After comments from gala emcee Johnny Grant--a.k.a. Mr. Hollywood--the crowd will hear from Giamatti, Autry (if he chooses to speak), Mickey Mouse and Jeffrey Katzenberg, president of Walt Disney Studios.

Then come the vittles--bucket after bucket of finger lickin’ beef and pork ribs and crisp ‘n’ crunchy chicken and old-fashioned baked beans and potato salad--carried by 250 performing singers and dancers and the Disneyland characters. Disneyland promises that the food will be served to all the guests in 10 minutes.

After they’ve wolfed down the main course, guests will be served up an “Apple Pie Hoedown.” High-kicking waiters and waitresses will bring on hundreds of warm pies gussied up with red, white and blue streamers and stuck with large kitchen knives. Guests will be invited to divvy up the pie themselves.

Next, a 25-minute performance by comedian Jay Leno.

And finally, in the “finale finish” as party organizers are calling it, all 40 of the Disneyland characters will join singers, dancers, riders and ropers as they wend their way through the tables and invite guests to enter the Magic Kingdom to enjoy the rides, view the Electrical Parade and get an eyeful of fireworks.

Tuesday morning, brunch for the All-Star players, coaches, managers and their families will be held in the California room of the Anaheim Hilton hotel. A groaning board of eye-openers will be up for grabs, starting with a fresh fruit-juice bar and a slew of sliced fruit presented on gleaming mirrors.

Also on the buffet table: a six-foot long omelet, “eggs done up like a French baguette,” said the hotel’s assistant catering director, Chris Delaunois; seafood quiche; country-style potatoes; tomatoes stuffed with seafood mousse; and piles of Danish pastries and bagels. Table centerpieces will feature clear glass bowls stuffed with peanuts, mini-baseballs, and confetti. Each arrangement will be topped with a tiny statue of a baseball player.

That night, a pregame dinner party will be hosted by Gene Autry in Anaheim Stadium’s Golden West Room, a private dining area adjacent to Autry’s and wife Jackie’s personal viewing box. On the menu for more than 100 of Autry’s pals will be fare cooked up by Jack Britton, Autry’s executive chef for the past 24 years.

“I’m making prime rib, filet mignon, roast turkey, baked ham, lobster and oysters,” said Britton, who once cooked for the New York Mets. “But the truth is, Mr. Autry would rather be eating a hamburger made with ground chuck. That’s his favorite thing in the whole world.”

Autry won’t have another bite until the end of the seventh inning, Britton said. “That’s when he orders chocolate-chip ice cream. It’s a tradition. You know, around the seventh inning, he starts getting a little hungry, and the ice cream is just right.”

Insiders don’t expect Giamatti to watch the game from Autry’s box. They think he’ll take it all in from regular stadium seats. But they do think he will drop by Autry’s box to pay his respects.

Ronald Reagan, who will do one inning of color commentary on the All-Star game for television, is also expected to drop by Autry’s box, which includes a sitting room decorated with pictures of Autry and ofReagan when he was President of the United States. Former baseball commissioner Peter Ueberroth, a resident of Emerald Bay, will watch the game in regular seats with his family.

After the game, Autry and about 2,000 others--mostly the “Boots” bash crowd--will flood the terrace level of Anaheim Stadium for a beach party, complete with beach balls, sandy scenery and ersatz palm trees.

A beach party in Anaheim? “Yup,” confided an insider. “We figure this is the closest the All-Stars will get to the beach, so we may as well go for it!”