Word: lasorda
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...chummy basketball guy with the big schnozz and the quick wit? The coaching success story who plays by the rules--and actually cares about his players as human beings? Kind of a Tommy Lasorda without the waistline...
...thank Boggs for bringing trashy television into baseball. Soon, he and Rivera will get along better than Tommy Lasorda and pasta...
Manager Tommy Lasorda's prescience began with his use of Hatcher. Besides making a concert of the hit and run, Lasorda also let the A's alumnus Mike Davis ("a buck-ninety hitter," as Dennis Eckersley moaned) swing away in the fifth game on a 3-and-0 count -- for a homer, of course. Wisest of all, he persisted with Hershiser in the treacherous moment of that last 5-2 victory, when the choirboy was so spooked he actually sang hymns. "Today I'm living out the dream," Hershiser had said, "of a kid who was funny looking, wore glasses...
...were good baseball men and members of the bar, but the A's skipper has had trouble finding comfortable acceptance among his tobacco-splattered peers. In his THE BALLET SCHOOL T shirt, under his NO CIGAR SMOKING PLEASE sign, La Russa sometimes yearns to be a little more like Lasorda, who sometimes yearns to be a little less like Lou Costello. One playing chess and the other checkers: it could be a surprising match...
...muscle- bound A' s and the self- effacing Dodgers, California has made a private preserve of the annual passage Tommy Lasorda actually calls "the fall classic." Orel Hershiser peers in for the sign; Jose Canseco lifts a bolt of mountain ash. When they are finished, winter will be in sight. -- Wanna do an inning of play- by- play...