Word: lasorda
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Across the meadow, Tommy Lasorda is singing about the Dodgers' latest "pheenoms": Greg Brock, a 25-year-old first baseman who has played four years in the minor leagues and 33 days in the majors, and Mike Marshall, a 23-year-old rightfielder who has never played the position before. "Tommy is good with young players," Anderson says. "They haven't heard his stories...
...same time happened to be losing six straight. Dodger Leftfielder Dusty Baker thought the San Diego hand-slapping (high fives, low fives) a little elaborate for April, and the teams waged a brief beanball war over this point of etiquette. When the dust settled, Los Angeles Manager Tommy Lasorda concluded that the entire affair was just something "prefabricated" by the media...
...fall of Fidrych puts some in mind of Mexican Phenomenon Fernando Valenzuela, provider of about the only sweet note last season and about the only discordant one now. But even Fernando's holdout with Los Angeles has been kept a fairly light quarrel. Says Dodger Manager Tommy Lasorda: "All last year we tried to teach him English, and the only word he learned was 'million.' " Softer, Lasorda says: "He was a big hero last year, but people are beginning to turn on him. It could hurt...
...Pitcher Don Sutton used to keep a telegram (and his perspective) tacked on his locker, six MILLION BEST WISHES, it read; signed LEE AND FARRAH FAWCETT-MAJORS. Sutton loved to laugh and say: "Nice of their publicist to do it." One wall of the Dodger Stadium office of Tommy Lasorda, the manager who kisses and hugs his players like a game-show host, is a shrine to Frank Sinatra. What better place to hang this year's championship than in the publicists' town, right up there between the Captain and Tennille...
...Fernando hung on for a gritty 5-4 victory, and Los Angeles Manager Tommy Lasorda exclaimed: "This is the year of Fernando!" The Mexican ace was wild, and the pressure of pitching with too little rest between playoff emergencies finally seemed to show...