[Jane Long]

RIP Tommy 💙

[lgjhn23]

One of the greatest BB managers in the game....back when baseball was...well...baseball.

[V_TWIN]

My dad met and spent a little time with him during a celebrity tour Lasorda was part of during the Viet Nam war. My dad said he was a stand up guy.

[volunbeer]

One of the biggest personalities of sports in many ways.

RIP

[AnotherUnixGeek]

He lived a long and great life. As a Giants fan, I used to boo the crap out of him every time he went to the mound at Candlestick, and I always enjoyed it and him. RIP.

[PGalt]

Condolences to family and friends of Tommy Lasorda. One of the GREATS

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=N4nwMDZYXTI

[BigEdLB]

RIP Tommy

[BigEdLB]

He hung on till the Dodgers won the series again

[CatOwner]

Looks like the 2020 inductees into baseball heaven now have a manager.

RIP Tommy Lasorda

[rottndog]

Not unexpected, but it hurts nonetheless...a true American Icon...RIP Tommy.

[changeitback440]

never liked that crybaby

[rottndog]

A National treasure...completely apt description of Mr. Lasorda.

[FreedomGuru]

RIP Tommy thanks for the memories.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orfsERqeAJI

[HKMk23]

Well, that does it.
Ya got me cryin’ here.

Lasorda is on a short roster of My Most Beloved Humans.

I saw his heart and soul in how he managed the players; saw the love and respect between him and guys like pitcher Fernando Valenzuela. Yeah, he cared about stats and performance, but he loved the people first and foremost. He never managed a dugout full of statistics; he led teams of men he respected and cared for.

Not being a celebrity wonk, I never dug into Tommy’s life, only recorded what I saw, which was mostly during ballgames, and what I saw was monument to living life among others as decently as possible. I’ve no doubt Tommy wasn’t perfect, but sticking with the same wife for 70 years is a Hall Of Fame stat all by itself.

A towering baseball personality, both inside and outside the ballpark, Lasorda’s departure has left the world with a VERY large, and well-worn pair of empty shoes.

And there’s a rainy place, now, in my heart, too.

[deport]

When a 7-year-old visited his Dodger Stadium office during the 2006 playoffs, Hall of Fame manager Tommy Lasorda decided to give the boy his “
facts of life” speech. Lasorda put his hand squarely on the boy’s shoulder and began the message in a slow and deliberate voice. “I want you to always remember one thing … stand in the middle when taking a photo, so they can’t crop you out of the picture,” he said.

[Honorary Serb]

Memory Eternal!!!!

[T. P. Pole]

My memory of Lasorda comes from the Rick Monday flag saving incident.

“By the time he’d handed it to a teammate near the dugout, Tommy Lasorda let the protesters have a few choice words. At the time, Lasorda was the third baseman for the Dodgers. He [Lasorda] came running past me yelling about every expletive that a longshoreman would utter on a bad, bad day!” Monday said.

If Monday hadn’t gotten the flag, Lasorda was headed there too.

[Win94]

A great personality, great manager, great patriot. RIP from a Cards fan.

[MissEdie]

I met him when I was a teenager back in the 80’s (I know, I'm telling my age). My church's youth group had travelled from SC to Atlanta to watch the Braves play the Dodgers. It was when Joe Torre was with the Braves. We were all big Braves fans before that game. Long story short, we go to the stadium early to get autographs and meet some of the Braves players. Joe Torre was such a rude, pompous ass to us. He saunters over to where we were and told us the star players were busy warming up but if we needed an autograph he would get someone out of the dugout to come over. Me and another girl told him not to bother- that's when we saw a friend of ours over talking to Tommy Lasorda . We walked over to him- she introduced us as Braves fans. He said that was ok- he wouldn't hold that against us. He asked us if we had any questions about the game or his team. Before we could ask, he calls the entire Dodger team over to us so we could meet them. I can't remember all of the famous players we met, but we got lots of autographs. He told us his players didn't mind meeting fans- because without us they wouldn't be there. Tommy Lasorda was such a nice man, my other friend and I became Dodger fans from that day forward.

[Lockbar]

I don’t know much about sports, but he always seemed to be a regular likeable guy.