- Born
- Died
- Birth nameThomas Charles Lasorda
- Height1.78 m
- Tommy Lasorda was one of the best managers in baseball until his retirement in July 1996. He was involved with the Los Angeles Dodgers for over 50 years. He managed the team from 1976 to 1996. He retired due to a heart attack. He thought being a manager would be too stressful.- IMDb mini biography by: Eli Boorstein <eli@hotmail.com>
- SpouseJo Lasorda(April 14, 1950 - January 7, 2021) (his death, 2 children)
- His fiery temper
- Number 2 jersey with the Los Angeles Dodgers
- Only son Tommy, Jr. died of complications from AIDS on 3 June 1991. Lasorda, who was estranged from him at the time, has refused to acknowledge Tommy's homosexuality.
- At the 2001 All Star game, while acting as honorary 3rd base coach, Vladimir Guerrero's bat broke and hit Lasorda in the chest, knocking him to the ground. Barry Bonds tried to put a catcher's chest protector on Lasorda to protect him from further injury.
- Inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame as a manager in 1997.
- Inducted into the National Italian American Sports Hall of Fame in 1989.
- Inducted into the International League Hall of Fame in 2008.
- I bleed Dodger blue!
- Baseball is like driving. It's the one who gets home safely that counts.
- There are three types of baseball players: Those who make it happen, those who watch it happen and those who wonder what happens.
- "Back when I broke in [as a player] we had one trainer who carried a bottle of rubbing alcohol and by the end of the seventh inning he had drunk it all." (on the large number of doctors and medical specialists associated with baseball teams in the 1990s)
- He was to people all over the world what a baseball player was supposed to be like. If you said to God, 'Create someone who is what a baseball player should be,' God would have created Joe DiMaggio. And He did.
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