R.I.P. Tommy Lasorda

[Zimmer's Helmet]

Dodgers have just announced his passing.
One of the game’s great characters.

Go check out his rants against Kurt Bevacqua and Dave Kingman on YouTube - absolutely priceless

https://mobile.twitter.com/Dodgers/s...955264/photo/1

[Yankee Tripper]

Whether you like the Dodgers or not, Tommy was a great ambassador of the game of baseball. RIP

[Casey at the Bat]

I grew up as a Dodgers fan, and my childhood was filled with Tommy, Vin, Fernando, and Orel. A true character, and good guy overall. My favorite Tommy moment was when I was in SF watching a non-dodgers game, and for some reason, Tommy was there as a part of the pre-game announcements. The crowd boo’ed him. He just smiled, and waved to them as he walked away.

[ymike673]

Whether you like the Dodgers or not, Tommy was a great ambassador of the game of baseball. RIP

Yes he was. RIP.

[Yankee Tripper]

Some of my favorite Lasorda memories

His arguing the Reggie Jackson hip check.

His getting Yopi thrown out.

his tumble in the 2001 all star game

[Yankee Tripper]

Just realized he was the last living manager of any WS team in the 70s. I feel old.

[philleotardo]

Dodgers have just announced his passing.
One of the game’s great characters.

Go check out his rants against Kurt Bevacqua and Dave Kingman on YouTube - absolutely priceless

https://mobile.twitter.com/Dodgers/s...955264/photo/1

Bevacqua has got to be one of favorite rants by any coach/manager. Accentuates his name to where it almost becomes an insult in itself. Goes after his stats. That one wasn’t entirely for show, there was vitriol.

[BroadwayBomber55]

Just realized he was the last living manager of any WS team in the 70s. I feel old.

And Tommy Lasorda was also an Olympic Gold Medal winning manager with the United States in the 2000 Summer Olympic Games in Sydney.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6Q6HT4CQ94

[BroadwayBomber55]

Another Tommy Lasorda gem after the Dodgers beat the Mets in the 1988 NLCS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3nPB9lrMPE

[Zimmer's Helmet]

Bevacqua has got to be one of favorite rants by any coach/manager. Accentuates his name to where it almost becomes an insult in itself. Goes after his stats. That one wasn’t entirely for show, there was vitriol.

Classic line in that rant: "he couldn't hit water if he fell out of a boat".

[-tz]

Classic line in that rant: "he couldn't hit water if he fell out of a boat".

All the funnier if you know "Bevacqua" is Italian for "Drink water."

[ojo]

Some of my favorite Lasorda memories

His arguing the Reggie Jackson hip check.

His getting Yopi thrown out.

his tumble in the 2001 all star game

I remember back in the 70s when I was a single-digit kid, living in Glastonbury CT, my neighbor explained to me that Reggie just decided to take a throw to first off his butt.

That explanation I heard 42 years ago still holds up.

[JPPT1974]

First major death of 2021. After so much tragedy in 2020. May Tommy RIP. God bless him and his family. Seventy years of marriage to the same woman. Very rare!