Tommy Lasorda was one of baseball's true immortal.Tommy was eighty years old, had twenty years of managing, and fifty-seven with the franchise. This Hall of Famer still suits up in Dodger blue every day. Lasorda went from a scrawny, overlooked Italian kid of average ability to become one of the world's most recognizable baseball faces. He fought for it every step of the way
Tommy Lasorda was a jovial, joke-cracking manager. Tommy Lasorda moved from Italy to Norristown. Lasorda and some of his friends where watching a baseball game at the closest field when a fight broke out on the field. He hoped the fence and grabbed the closest baseball glove he could fined because he did not have enough money to buy one. After he got home he started looking
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The Dodger manager at the time thought he was to aggressive. So he would send Lasorda back to the miners and the miner league would always send him back. Lasorda was traded around a lot. His biggest dream was to be the manager of the Dodgers. Lasorda finally became manager of the Dodgers. When
Lasorda would give speeches he never wrote down what to say, he never had notes. He always spoke from his heart be he says "isn't that what motivation speaking about ."
Lasorda was energic and cared about baseball. Lasorda had some famous quotes. Witch are "There are three types of baseball players: those who make it happen, those who watch it happen, and those who wonder what happened." - Tommy Lasorda . Another one is "The difference between the impossible and the possible Lies in a persons determination." -Tommy Lasorda.
After Tommy retired, Bill Russell became manager of the Dodger's. Bill Russell joined the Dodger's in 1966 as a kid in the outfield on Tommy's minor team. Lasorda always said that he saw something special in the kid. When Russell became manager Lasorda thought that Russell would follow in his foot steps, but instead he listened to the Fred