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Photo credit: Jon SooHoo | LA Dodgers The Dodgers held a celebration of life for Tommy Lasorda on Tuesday at Dodger Stadium, with a small group of former players, family, and friends paying tribute to the Hall of Fame manager who died on Jan. 7. Keith Williams Jr. sang the national anthem before the event, and per the Dodgers, the pallbearers were Eric Karros, Mickey Hatcher, Bobby Valentine, Charlie Hough, Mike Scioscia, Steve Brener, Michael Greenberg, Chris Leggio, Warren Lichtenstein, and M...

share-square-2675507 What do you get when you put Jerry Manuel, Ron Washington and Mike Scioscia on a Zoom call? A dream team of successful big league skippers, and as much baseball knowledge as you can handle in 60 minutes. The triumvirate represented three of the 2021 DREAM Series expert panelists, covering managerial strategy. Scioscia also sat down for the catching chat, joining moderator Darrell Miller, a former big league backstop now calling pitches for MLBs Compton Youth Academy. Also h...

Reporter’s Notebook: Meeting Tommy Lasorda [Daily Press, Victorville, Calif.] Jan. 17—Former Dodger Manager Tommy Lasorda shook my hand and, with a wink of an eye, told me how much he knew about Victorville. “That’s where Roy Rogers and Dale Evans had their museum,” Lasorda said during my interview with him in October 2010 at LoanMart Field, the home of the Rancho Cucamonga Quakes. “It’s also one of the last bathroom stops on the way to Las Vegas.” Seven years earlier, my son, J...

January 17, 2021 Chris Perez didn’t get many opportunities to swing the bat during his seven big-league seasons. As a short reliever who played primarily in the American League, that was to be expected. Somewhat less expected was what happened when he did have a chance to dig into the batters box. “I had two [plate appearances], and I’m bitter about one of them,” Perez told me recently. “In 2008, my rookie year with St. Louis, we were in Florida at the old stadium, playing the Marl...

January 12, 2021 On the heels of a year in which a record seven Hall of Famers died, the baseball world couldn’t get a full week into 2021 without losing another. Tommy Lasorda, the charismatic and voluble manager who piloted the Dodgers to four National League pennants and two championships during a run of 19 full seasons (1977-95) and two partial ones, died of cardiopulmonary arrest on January 7. The 93-year-old Lasorda had returned home earlier in the week after being hospitalized since m...

share-square-729490 The first name that usually comes to mind when discussing managerial longevity is Connie Mack, who was at the helm of teams for 53 seasons. Perhaps the most impressive part of his run is that 50 of those seasons came consecutively for the same team -- the Athletics, from 1901-50. The longest continuous tenure for an active manager with his current team isn’t nearly as long as that, of course. That belongs to Bob Melvin, who has managed the A’s for the past 10 seasons. Te...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Tommy Lasorda, the fiery Hall of Fame manager who guided the Los Angeles Dodgers to two World Series titles and later became an ambassador

Tommy Lasorda found old-school success in an age of rapid change The MLB Network looks back at some of the most memorable moments of Tommy Lasorda’s life and career, as we mourn the loss of the one of the game’s biggest personalities and greatest enthusiasts, who dies at the age of 93. | January 8, 2021, 2:28 PM January 8, 2021, 2:28 PM Tommy Lasorda lived an outsized life — larger, certainly, than the average, soft-tossing journeyman pitcher — and he was equally comfortable leading wi...

LOS ANGELES — Growing more and more frail, Tommy Lasorda looked on from a suite at Globe Life Field in Texas, watching as the Los Angeles Dodgers...

The Associated Press LOS ANGELES — Growing more and more frail, Tommy Lasorda looked on from a suite at Globe Life Field in Texas, watching as the Los Angeles Dodgers clinched the World Series in Game 6 against the Tampa Bay Rays. Surrounded by family and friends, Lasorda celebrated the team’s first championship in 32 years that October evening amid the coronavirus pandemic. While his mobility was slowed, his mind was still sharp. Fittingly, it was the last game he ever attended. “He alwa...