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The saddest day of the year is the day baseball season ends.
Tommy Lasorda
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Tommy Lasorda
Age: 93 †
Born: 1927
Born: September 22
Died: 2021
Died: January 7
Baseball Manager
Baseball Player
Voice Actor
Norristown
Pennsylvania
Thomas Charles Lasorda
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Listen, if you start worrying about the people in the stands, before too long you're up in the stands with them.
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I've got a portrait in the Smithsonian. Who ever thought that would happen?
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