[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.

[L.A.Justice]

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.
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Thanks for the story...

Joe Torre became the Dodgers manager many years later...

I hope that you still supported Dodgers when Torre was the manager...

You were clearly not happy with how Mr. Torre treated you and your group...