· In one of the many great stories in “I Live for This! Baseball’s Last True Believer” by Bill Plaschke with Tommy Lasorda, the young Tommy, on his way to . Tommy Lasorda is baseball's true immortal and one of its larger than life figures. A former pitcher who was overshadowed by Sandy Koufax, Lasorda went on to a Hall of Fame career as a manager with one of baseball's most storied franchises. His teams won two World Series, four National League pennants, and eight division titles. He was twice named National League manager of the year and he also 3/5(1). I Live for This!: Baseball’s Last True Believer. Review I Live for This!: Baseball’s Last True Believer. Bill Plaschke with Tommy Lasorda. Tommy Lasorda is a company man and proud of it, regardless of what you might think when he propounds his creed of “the great Dodger in the sky” or bleeding “Dodger.
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Bill Plaschke is the author of I Live for This! Baseball's Last True Believer ( avg rating, ratings, 24 reviews, published ), American Victor. Baseball's Last True Believer book. I think Tommy Lasorda is a great boon to major league baseball, and he is certainly an important part of Dodgers history. Baseball's Last True Believer book. An award-winning sportswriter shows. Start by marking I Live for This! Baseball's Last True Believer as Want to Read: Want to Read savin. ant to Read. In I Live for This! award-winning sportswriter Bill Plaschke shows us one of baseball's legends as we've never seen him before, revealing the man behind the myth, the secrets to his amazing, unlikely success, and his unvarnished opinions on the state of the game. Bravely and brilliantly, I Live for This! dissects the personality to give us the person. By the end we’re left with an indelible portrait of a legend that, if Tommy Lasorda has anything to say about it, we won’t ever forget.
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