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Former manager and lifelong global Dodgers icon Tommy Lasorda dies at age 93.
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Tommy Lasorda was named parade marshal for the 2011 Nisei Week Grand Parade, and was joined at the announcement by (from left) Nisei Week Foundation President Rev. Mark Nakagawa and Princesses Brynn Nakamoto, Kelli Teragawa and Christy Sakamoto. Lasorda died Thursday of heart failure. (JUN NAGATA / Rafu Shimpo)
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In his adult life, Tommy Lasorda had exactly one kind of job: he worked for a baseball team.
After signing his first minor league contract as a teenager, his life took him on a path from moderately talent pitcher to one of the most recognizeable personalities in all of sports.
January 12, 2021
On the heels of a year in which a record seven Hall of Famers died, the baseball world couldn’t get a full week into 2021 without losing another. Tommy Lasorda, the charismatic and voluble manager who piloted the Dodgers to four National League pennants and two championships during a run of 19 full seasons (1977-95) and two partial ones, died of cardiopulmonary arrest on January 7.
The 93-year-old Lasorda had returned home earlier in the week after being hospitalized since mid-November due to a heart condition. He had been the oldest living Hall of Famer since Red Schoendienst passed away on June 6, 2018; that title now belongs to 89-year-old Willie Mays.
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Dodgers manager Tommy Lasorda congratulates pitcher Hideo Nomo following the Japanese hurler s first MLB win in Los Angeles on June 2, 1995. | REUTERS / VIA KYODO
REUTERS Jan 9, 2021
Los Angeles – Tommy Lasorda, the colorful and cantankerous former manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers who led the team to four National League pennants and two World Series titles in the 1970s and ’80s, has died. He was 93.
Lasorda, who spent more than 70 years in the Dodgers organization, suffered a sudden cardiopulmonary arrest at home Thursday night and was taken to a hospital where he was pronounced dead a short time later, the team said in a statement on Friday.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Tommy Lasorda, the colorful and cantankerous longtime manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers who led the team to four National League pennants and two World Series championships in the 1970s and ‘80s, has died. He was 93.
FILE PHOTO: Sep 20, 2019; Los Angeles, CA, USA; Los Angeles Dodgers former manager Tommy Lasorda attends the game against the Colorado Rockies at Dodger Stadium. The Dodgers defeated the Rockies 12-5. Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports/File Photo
Lasorda, who spent more than 70 years in the Dodgers organization, suffered a sudden cardiopulmonary arrest at home Thursday night and was taken to a hospital where he was pronounced dead a short time later, the team said in a statement on Friday.
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