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Tommy Lasorda's number 2 was retired by the Los Angeles Dodgers in 1997. Lasorda was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1997 [37] as a manager in his first year of eligibility. The Dodgers retired his uniform number (2) on August 15, 1997 [38] and renamed a street in Dodgertown as "Tommy Lasorda Lane". In 2014, a new restaurant named ...
The Giants hired Zack Minasian as general manager, and he and brother Perry, who works for the Angels, are the first siblings to be GMs at the same time in MLB history. Giants hire Tommy Lasorda's ...
Tommy Lasorda: Los Angeles Dodgers, 1978. Cubs manager Lee Elia wins the award for most NSFW tirade by a major league manager to reporters. However, a close second is probably Tommy Lasorda's ...
[4] [5] Minasian was named after his father, and his middle name was selected for his godfather, Tommy Lasorda. [4] [6] He graduated from the University of Texas at Arlington. [7] Minasian worked for the Milwaukee Brewers for fourteen years, first joining the team as an intern in 2004 and was director of professional scouting by the age of 27.
Dusty Baker, center, celebrates with manager Tommy Lasorda and his Dodgers teammates after homering in Game 2 of the 1977 NLCS. (Associated Press) He is coming home to a place he never should have ...
[47] [48] On August 31, against the San Francisco Giants, he broke Dizzy Dean's NL single-game record of 17 strikeouts and tied Bob Feller's Major League record of 18. [49] [50] [51] That season, the Dodgers won a tight pennant race against the Giants and the Milwaukee Braves. They faced the Chicago White Sox in the World Series. In his first ...
Tommy Lasorda, the baseball coach and manager who managed the Los Angeles Dodgers for 20 years, has died. “Tommy Lasorda was one of the finest managers our game has ever known,” said MLB ...
Lasorda recalled that, as a teenager in the early 1940s, he had attended his first major league game at Shibe Park in Philadelphia, a contest between the Phillies and Maynard's Giants. As the game ended, the young Lasorda and his friends gathered in the runway between the teams' dugouts and their clubhouses in search of autographs from the big ...