Basic Information About Tommy Lasorda
Category | Athletes βΊ Coaches |
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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 (Β 1950 - 7 JanuaryΒ 2021)Β (his death)Β (2 children) |
Gender | Male |
Height | 5 ft 9 in (1.77 m) |
Social Media | βοΈ Wikipedia βοΈ IMDb |
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What Movie Awards did Tommy Lasorda win?
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Golden Globe |
Golder Raspberry |
BAFTA |
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0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Tommy Lasorda roles
Movie / Series | Role |
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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 |
Tommy Lasorda's Quotes
- 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.
Interesting Facts about Tommy Lasorda
- 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.
References & Fact Checks β
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- Source URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tommy_Lasorda_with_the_Brooklyn_Dodgers_in_1954.jpg
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https://twitter.com/baseballhall/status/1155795363787419651 - Author: Unknown author
- Date taken: 1954
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- Source URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tommy_Lasorda_with_the_Kansas_City_Athletics_in_1956.jpg
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- Date taken: 1956
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Own work - Author: William F. Henderson
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- Date taken: 3 April 2020
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https://bush41library.tamu.edu/audiovisual/photos/71 - Author: Credit: George H.W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum
- Date taken: 14 June 1991
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https://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2007/07/images/20070715_p071507jb-0209-626v.html - Author: White House photo by Joyce N. Boghosian
- Date taken: 15 July 2007
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Own work - Author: Life of Riley
- Date taken: 11 June 2010
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- Date taken: 30 December 2007 (original upload date) (Original text: December 12, 2005)