Word: lasorda
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...comply with that agency's mandate to broadcast "accurate, objective and comprehensive" news. The first day's 14 1/2- hour broadcast, which Cuba tried unsuccessfully to jam, included a melodramatic soap opera, tunes from Pop Singer Julio Iglesias and an interview in Spanish with Los Angeles Dodgers Manager Tommy Lasorda, who claimed that the island would have had a major league baseball team by now if it were not a Communist country. Most observers agreed that Radio Marti's material was mild compared with programs beamed to Cuba by several Miami-based Spanish-language stations, which routinely refer to Castro...
...games. During his career he steadied such future Hall of Fame members as Jackie Robinson, Duke Snider, Sandy Koufax and Don Drysdale, and was named to the Hall himself last year. He had always signed one-year contracts for the job he considered "the best in baseball." Noted Tommy Lasorda, Alston's successor as manager: "If you couldn't play for Walt, you couldn't play...
...seemed to be offering unusual, but valid insights-into the game and there was the hope that after retiring he would have had some grand conclusions about what it all meant. The farce is still there but often the book seems strung together like a collection of Tommy Lasorda one-liners...
...pitchers have become successful managers--Tom Lasorda and Dallas Green are two notable exceptions. What former pitcher won the Manager of the Year award with three different teams? He won just one World Series in the process...
...from the jungle-this is the Dominican Republic now-comes the ball on the fly to home plate. Into the woods runs our scout, and there was this kid, José González-" Lasorda presents a strapping 6-ft. 2-in. outfielder whose uniform number, 77, signals that he is a farm hand. "Just 18 years old!" Lasorda exclaims. "See, we grow our own." It is a fact that the Dodgers have provided the National League's past four Rookies of the Year, and the candidate of the moment is Brock, who on the strength of 17 major...