Tommy Lasorda
Tommy Lasorda
Thomas Charles "Tommy" Lasordais a former Major League baseball player who has had a lengthy career in sports management. In 2009, he marked his sixth decade in one capacity or another with the Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers organization, the longest non-continuoustenure anyone has had with the team, edging Dodger broadcaster Vin Scully by a single season. He was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame as a manager in 1997...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth22 September 1927
CityNorristown, PA
CountryUnited States of America
I didn't even graduate from high school. I've never told anybody that before. I got my degree later, when I was in the army.
I still remember the entire Boy Scout motto. I don't remember the serial number of my gun in the army. I don't remember the number of my locker in school. But I remember that Boy Scout code.
I've been able to dine with presidents, with leaders of corporations, traveled for 14 years with (financier and philanthropist) Michael Milken, who has taught me so much about life. Hanging around with them, it's nothing I could have believed in grade school. I could be with all of them? Milton Berle, Don Rickles, Dean Martin ... this former third-string pitcher from the Norristown High baseball team and the son of an Italian immigrant? I really am in awe when I think that has happened to me. What a life.
I've had escorts before, but nothing like this.
This is something that we needed so desperately in this game. And to see the reaction of the fans all over the country is really and truly amazing, and to see the excitement at that ballpark today was stimulating. All of us in baseball should really say to those guys congratulations for what they've done for the game.
Do you know how many countries are represented in the Olympics, and how many sports, and how many athletes? ... A lot. A lot. But no Americans in baseball? Why? Why? It's sad. Very sad.
I've always called L.A. 'the world capital of sport.'
You wait till you see that Dominican team. You wait till you see Puerto Rico. You wait till you see Venezuela. . . . Matsui is a great player. The Japanese team needs him.
I am enthused and excited to be named the honorary starter. Waving the green flag is like swinging a bat; it's all in the wrists.
I am enthused, and excited to be named the Honorary Starter. Waving the green flag is like swinging a bat; it's all in the wrists.
I was fortunate enough to coach the U.S. Olympic team in Australia.
Many people have asked me why I came to Plymouth,
She's a package of dynamite, an endless worker.
I told him, 'You will be a major league manager. You have the ability, you have the knowledge and certainly have the correct attitude,'