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No one brings joy to ballpark like Tommy

"All managers will talk about taking pride in the uniform. It goes on Page Three. Tommy Lasorda put in on Page One and put a banner over it.
-- Bill James, "The Bill James Guide to Baseball Managers"

Tommy Lasorda is probably the last celebrity manager we'll ever have in the big leagues. That's what comes to mind tonight as we hear that he is in the hospital, resting comfortably, at age 89. He managed the Los Angeles Dodgers in a golden age of baseball managers, the age of Earl Weaver and Sparky Anderson, Billy Martin and Tony La Russa, Joe Torre and Dick Williams and Bobby Cox.