Tommy Lasorda Net Worth, spouse, young children, awards, movies

Basic Information About Tommy Lasorda

Category	Athletes › Coaches
Professions	Baseball player, Manager, Coach, Actor, Voice Actor, Soldier, Restaurateur, Businessperson
Net worth	$15,000,000
Date of birth	1927-09-22
Place of birth	Norristown
Date of death	2021-01-08 (aged 93)
Nationality	United States of America
Spouse	14 April - Jo Lasorda ( 1950 - 7 January 2021) (his death) (2 children)
Gender	Male
Height	5 ft 9 in (1.77 m)
Social Media	↗︎ Wikipedia ↗︎ IMDb

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Oscar	Golden Globe	Golder Raspberry	BAFTA	Other
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Movie / Series	Role
Ladybugs	Coach Cannoli
CHiPs	Tommy Lasorda 1 episode, 1982
Police Squad!	Tommy Lasorda 1 episode, 1982
Everybody Loves Raymond	Self / ... 1 episode, 1997
Hee Haw	Self 1 episode, 1984
Life with Louie	Coach Larry Rockwell / ... 2 episodes, 1995-1996
WWE Monday Night RAW	Self 1 episode, 1994
Silver Spoons	Tommy Lasorda 1 episode, 1985
Simon & Simon	Tommy Lasorda 1 episode, 1985
The Young and the Restless	Self 1 episode, 2009
The Bachelorette	Self 1 episode, 2008
Fantasy Island	Tommy Lasorda 1 episode, 1978
Hart to Hart	Tommy Lasorda 1 episode, 1979
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno	Self 2 episodes, 1994
Arli$$	Self 3 episodes, 1996-2000
Who's the Boss?	Self 1 episode, 1990
Late Night with Conan O'Brien	Self - Guest 1 episode, 1997

I bleed Dodger blue!
Baseball is like driving. It's the one who gets home safely that counts.
There are three types of baseball players: Those who make it happen, those who watch it happen and those who wonder what happens.
"Back when I broke in [as a player] we had one trainer who carried a bottle of rubbing alcohol and by the end of the seventh inning he had drunk it all." (on the large number of doctors and medical specialists associated with baseball teams in the 1990s)
He was to people all over the world what a baseball player was supposed to be like. If you said to God, 'Create someone who is what a baseball player should be,' God would have created Joe DiMaggio. And He did.

Inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame as a manager in 1997.
Record of 0 won and 4 losses with an ERA of 6.52 with the Brooklyn Dodgers and Kansas City from 1954 to 1956.
At the 2001 All Star game, while acting as honorary 3rd base coach, Vladimir Guerrero's bat broke and hit Lasorda in the chest, knocking him to the ground. Barry Bonds tried to put a catcher's chest protector on Lasorda to protect him from further injury.
He won pennants in 1977 and 1978, plus won the World Series in 1981 and 1988.
Managed Los Angeles Dodgers to 1977 and 1978 National League Pennants and 1981 and 1988 World Series Championships.
Only son Tommy, Jr. died of complications from AIDS on 3 June 1991. Lasorda, who was estranged from him at the time, has refused to acknowledge Tommy's homosexuality.
Lasorda grew up a New York Yankees fan.
Hospitalized in New York, after suffering a mild heart attack [June 5, 2012].
Special Advisor to the Chairman of the Los Angeles Dodgers. [February 2005]
Inducted into the Albuquerque [New Mexico] Baseball Hall of Fame in 2007.
Inducted into the Philadelphia Sports Hall of Fame in 2009.
Inducted into the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame in 2006.
Inducted into the Original Pacific Coast League Hall of Fame in 2006.
Inducted into the California Sports Hall of Fame in 2007.
Inducted into the National Italian American Sports Hall of Fame in 1989.
Inducted into the Cuban Sports Hall of Fame in 2010.
Inducted into the International League Hall of Fame in 2008.

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