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Born in Norristown, Pennsylvania, Thomas Charles Lasorda was a famous American baseball player, coach, and manager.
From 1976-1996, he was the manager of MLB's (Major League Baseball) Los Angeles Dodgers. As a supervisor, he was enlisted in 1997 into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
In 1954 and 1955, Lasorda was a member of the Los Angeles Dodgers, and later in 1956, he was a representative of the Kansas City collegiate athletics. Prior to taking over as supervisor, from 1973-1976, he mentored the Dodgers. As supervisor of the Dodgers, Lasorda ended up winning two World Series tournament titles and was twice designated as the National League Manager of the Year.
The net worth of Tommy Lasorda is approximately $15 million.
There is no information available on the annual earnings of Tommy Lasorda.
Tommy Lasorda was 5 ft 10 in (178 cm) tall.
Tommy Lasorda was 93 years old at the time of his death on January 7, 2021.
On September 22, 1927, Tommy Lasorda was raised in Norristown, Pennsylvania. His parents were Sabatino Lasorda, his father, and Carmella Lasorda, his mother. Tommy Lasorda was their second child, and he had four siblings, Morris Lasordo, Harry Lasorda, Joey Lasorda, and Edward A. Lasorda. He completed his high school graduation from Norristown High School.
Tommy Lasorda was married to his wife, Jo Lasorda, until his death. The pair met when Lasorda was performing for the Greenville Spinners in Jo Lasorda's homeland of Greenville, South Carolina. The couple tied the knot in 1950. Tommy Lasorda and Jo had two kids, a son, Tom Lasorda Jr., and a daughter, Laura Lasorda. They lived in Fullerton, California, for almost five decades. On September 7, 1997, they dedicated a fitness center and community complex in Yorba Linda, California, to their son, Tom Jr. (nicknamed Spunky), who passed away from cancer in 1991.
In 1949, the Brooklyn Dodgers selected Lasorda from the Philadelphia Phillies. In 1949, Tommy Lasorda was sent to the Greenville Spinners. Subsequently, he played for Montreal from 1950-1954 before making his major-league appearance with the Brooklyn Dodgers on August 5, 1954. Following the match, Lasorda was dropped and never threw for the Dodgers thereafter. He Lasorda was traded to the Kansas City Royals prior to the 1956 game. Tommy Lasorda was voted for the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame on June 24, 2006. Throughout 26 matches, he finished his major league journey with a 0–4 victory and a 6.52 average.
In 1960, Dodgers' scouting head, Al Campanis, recruited Tommy Lasorda as a scout. He handled the Pocatello Chiefs, another baseball team, in the rookie leagues throughout 1966, and later, scouted the Ogden Dodgers during 1966, 1967, and 1968 games. In 1973, Lasorda joined staff supervisor, Walter Alston as the third baseman coach, a position he held for about four seasons. Lasorda was largely considered Alston's chosen successor, and he initially rejected many major league managerial opportunities outside in order to stick with the Dodgers as their coach. When leading the Dodgers, Lasorda reportedly returned to the third-base coach's box for a relatively short term.
After Alston's departure on September 29, 1976, Lasorda took over as MLB manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers. Soon after Lasorda retired as manager in 1996, he was appointed vice president of the team, Los Angeles Dodgers. When Fred Claire was fired on June 22, 1998, he took over as temporary Chief Director. In 2004, just after the Dodgers were listed to Frank McCourt, he was named special advisor of the chairman, with obligations that involved scouting, assessing, and instructing minor league players, responding as a consultant and spokesperson for the Dodgers' worldwide associations, and reflecting the Dodgers in community displays and communicative involvements.
In 1970, 1977, and 1981, Tommy Lasorda was honored with The Sporting News Minor League Manager of the Year, UPI and Associated Press Manager of the Year, and AP Manager of the Year, respectively. In 1997, he was placed in the Baseball Hall of Fame. On August 15, 1997, a street was named after him called Tommy Lasorda Lane, and later a diner opened up with the name Lasorda's Trattoria in Dodgertown in 2014.
In 1988, he was again awarded the AP and Baseball America Manager of the Year and Sporting News Co-Manager of the Year. The United States Sports Academy honored Lasorda with the Amos Alonzo Stagg Coaching Award in 2000. The minor planet called 6128 Lasorda has been named after Tommy Lasorda along with the renaming of the University of Pennsylvania's baseball area in 2020.
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