Word: lasorda
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...provided enough heart-tugging drama for a Billy Crystal TV movie by crushing a home run in his final bow at an All-Star game. Grown men wept as the room-service fastball, served up by Chan Ho Park, landed beyond the left-field fence. For comic relief, TOMMY LASORDA took a flying baseball bat off his hip while coaching third base, wobbled over and popped right back up like the giant, adorable Weeble he is. "I feel great," Lasorda proclaimed. Feeling great is better than looking great...
...hours a day, six days a week without a break for the past three weeks. She assured me that male athletes, particularly Europeans, had got their nails done. This did not make me feel better. Then she told me that most of the U.S. basketball team and Tommy Lasorda had been in. I told her to pile on the cuticle...
With Tommy Lasorda at the helm, a ragtag group of minor leaguers and washed up major leaguers defeat the professionals from Cuba and win a shocker that some compare to the "Miracle on Ice" from...
...sweetest little Triple-A park you've ever seen - to watch the U.S. play Cuba in the gold-medal game. Ben Sheets pitched a beauty and the States won a stunner, 4-0. The Cubans had never lost the Olympic gold. The last scene was precious: Fat old Tommy Lasorda - remember? from the Dodgers? - waddling out, tears in his eyes, to celebrate with his kids, who were in a big pile out by shortstop. NBC showed you that, right...