Tommy Lasorda Looks Back On Baseball Dreams

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ROBERT SIEGEL
NPR All Things Considered
09-22-2009
Tommy Lasorda Looks Back On Baseball Dreams

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Time 20:00-21:00 PM

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In 1945, an 18-year-old left-handed pitcher from Norristown, Pennsylvania, signed a baseball contract. It took him until 1954 to make it to the Majors. He was there for bits of three seasons, all of 26 games. Career record: zero wins, four losses. And there he was today at the National Portrait Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution, staring at his own life-size portrait.

Mr. TOMMY LASORDA (Former Manager, Los Angeles Dodgers): ...

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