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The only Angels in Los Angeles are in Heaven, and they're looking down on the Dodgers.

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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
Dodgers
Angeles
Angels
Angel
Looking
Heaven

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I'm telling you, I don't like cheaters.
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Everything I have, I owe to baseball and the Dodgers.
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The best possible thing in baseball is winning The World Series. The second best thing is losing The World Series.
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Caltech honored me -- they named an asteroid after me. There's only two of them up there with names. One of them is Walter Cronkite. The other is Tommy Lasorda.
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