Tommy Lasorda Baseball player

Thomas Charles "Tommy" Lasorda (born September 22, 1927) is 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-continuous (he played one season with the Kansas City Athletics) tenure 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.

Personal facts

Tommy Lasorda
Birth dateSeptember 22, 1927

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Baseball player

Career startAugust 05, 1954
Career endJuly 08, 1956
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former teams
Oakland Athletics
History of the Brooklyn Dodgers
position
Manager (baseball)
Pitcher
teams
Los Angeles Dodgers
Oakland Athletics
History of the Brooklyn Dodgers
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External resources

  1. http://edition.cnn.com/US/9607/29/lasorda.retires
  2. http://everything2.net/index.pl?node_id=1529444&lastnode_id=1529444
  3. http://mlb.mlb.com/la/history/managers.jsp
  4. http://mlb.mlb.com/stats/historical/mlb_player_locator_results.jsp?playerLocator=LaSorda
  5. http://tommy.mlblogs.com
  6. http://www.baseballlibrary.com/baseballlibrary/ballplayers/L/Lasorda_Tommy.stm
  7. http://www.losangelesdodgersonline.com/tommylasorda.php
  8. http://www.momentofthanks.com/video/66