Word: lasorda
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last week Yankee Catcher Thurman Munson, 32, was killed in a plane crash near Canton, Ohio, and quickly received the encomiums he so craved in life. "Probably the best clutch hitter in baseball," said Los Angeles Dodgers Manager Tom Lasorda. "A wonderful, enormously likable guy, and a truly great ballplayer," said Baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn...
...like them apples, how do you like the sound of Vida Blue, Bob Knepper, Ed Halicki and John Montefusco starting? Or Randy Moffitt, John Curtis and Gary Lavelle relieving? It's the best staff anywhere--go bleed some Dodger Blue, Tommy LaSorda...
Both teams had their troubles over the course of the season, and their separate solutions to the problems of tenacious foes, injured heroes and warring locker-room egos outline equally separate paths to the World Series showdown. This year the one-big-happy-family of Dodger Manager Tommy Lasorda was not quite so happy. Unlike last season, Los Angeles struggled through the early months, swapping the lead with the Cincinnati Reds, then falling behind the San Francisco Giants. It wasn't until the last week of August that the Dodgers entered first place to stay, and that after...
Asked if he thought when he came to New York that the Yankees could beat his team three straight games, Lasorda shook his head. "I didn't believe it when I came here," he said...
While he wouldn't us the Reggie Jackson-basepath incident in Game 4 as an excuse. Lasorda still ws steaming ovesr the call. The Dodgers claimed Jackson had interfered with a throw on a potential double play and the incident costs them a vital run in their extra-inning loss...