first year in the Majors and Joe DiMaggio's last...I was four years old, and I stayed through both games. I was fascinated. I was hooked at that point."

The family eventually moved to Los Angeles, where Reiner made his television acting debut at age 14 on the series Manhunt. In the early 1960s, he served as a trainee and apprentice at the Bucks County Playhouse in New Hope, Pennsylvania.