Tommy Lasorda

Thomas Charles "Tommy" Lasorda (September 22, 1927 - January 7, 2021) was a former Major League baseball player who had a lengthy career in sports management. In 2009, he marked his sixth decade in one capacity or another with the Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers organization, the longest non-continuous (he played one season with the Kansas City Athletics) tenure anyone has had with the team, edging Dodger broadcaster Vin Scully by a single season. He was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame as a manager in 1997.
==Wrestling==
Lasorda was a special guest ring announcer at WrestleMania II.
==Personal life==
On June 3, 2012, at age 84, Lasorda was hospitalized in New York City after suffering a heart attack. The heart attack was not considered to be overly serious. On November 8, 2020, Lasorda was hospitalized for heart problems and was reported to be "in serious condition" in intensive care. The Dodgers didn't make the announcement public about his hospitalization until a week later. On December 1, 2020, Lasorda was taken out of the intensive care unit as his condition continued to improve. After being released from the hospital on January 5, 2021, Lasorda suffered sudden cardiac arrest at his home two days later and was rushed back to the hospital, where he was was pronounced dead that night; he was 93.
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