Tommy Lasorda Collection on Letterman, 1985-2012 

Tommy Lasorda. THE True Ambassador of Baseball.

Tommy was the greatest. May he rest in peace.

*sigh* I miss Tommy already :(

RIP Tommy And thanks for posting this, Don! I was beginning to think I'd only imagined Tommy spooning SlimFast right out of the container!

Thomas Charles Lasorda.....September 22, 1927 - January 7, 2021. Rest in peace, Tommy. 💙💙💙💙💙 ⚾⚾⚾⚾⚾ 😁😁😁😁😁

One of the Greatest individuals I have ever met. Class act Favorite speech to All. 2 most important things in the world are FAMILY AND RESPECT.

Love ya Tommy! My prayers are with you, get well soon! The big Dodger in the sky is looking out for you!

RIP TOMMY ⚾️

Glad I watched the whole thing - really funny stuff! Tommy had a great sense of humor!

I remember Clip #2! May 1991...I was getting ready to graduate from college. That was just one of those random things that made Late Night so much fun to watch. You just never knew what you would get on a particular night. I'm a Reds' fan (and I think Dave grew up a Reds' fan also) and Tommy Lasorda has been one of the great representatives of baseball over the years. He would do little segments on Johnny Bench's old show " The Baseball Bunch" and I had forgotten about his weight loss and Slim-Fast commercials. The Reds-Dodgers rivalry was so great back then...one thing about Lasorda is that, as funny and clownish as he could be off the field, he was ultra-competetive between the lines. You don't win as many games as he did as a manager by just being a clown. He knew baseball and he knew how to manage people. I think his "off-the-field persona" overshadowed that at times. But I have fond memories of him and it will be a sad day for me when he passes.

RIP, Tommy

Thanks for putting this together...Tommy and Dave had a great relationship

Hope Tommy pulls through!!!

He actually coached my cities minor league team here in eastern Washington state from 69 to 71, the Spokane Indians, long before my time. But they were part of the Dodgers organization at the time, which now they are part of the Texas Rangers who sadly have never won it (even though I am a Mariners fan which is even less successful lol). So its pretty neat to know he went on to become a success after sharpening some of his coaching skills on my home team. They also are not as high up in the Rangers system either as they were with the Dodgers, as they call it we had a AAA team then, so its more of a long shot there will be guys who make it big on an MLB roster now, since if they are promoted its just to another farm team higher in prestige usually.

In the 2nd clip from 1993 Dave says "Former L.A. Dodgers Manager Tommy Lasorda" but I thought Lasorda was still manager until 1996.

This is great! Pitcher compilation would be great some day, I know you're busy...

The funniest thing I’ve ever seen is Jackie Mason imitating Ed Sullivan.

21:55 got a good laugh from me

One decision tommy regretted was pitching to jack clark in the 7th inning of the 1985 n.l playoffs.

It was really sad when newscorp bought the dodgers. Im glad that ownership didn’t last. Family ownership allows for legends like tommy lasorda and vin scully. When a corporation owns a team the great people like tommy get pushed out for someone with a smaller salary. really sad. Im glad that when frank McCourt bought the dodgers he put Lasorda back at the forefront of the dodgers where he belongs. There will never be a manager as revered as tommy lasorda in baseball again. Anyone who achieves as much success as him would just cancelled because they said the wrong thing once. He won 2 would series in 20 years but it would never happen today. You get fired if you don’t win one after three seasons now. There is no loyalty anymore except corporations loyalty to their profit margin.

Itchy typing fingers - he's only in the ICU at this moment. But if he catches wind that his LNWDL compilation has posted, that'll finish him off for sure!

That joke just keeps showing up..lol

Don, maybe you can help me. I feel like either I saw this thing or my case of False Memory Syndrome is extremely acute. In any case, I can't find any record of it on line. This occurred in 1991 or 1992, right near Arsenio Hall's peak. NBC put this on at 10 PM EST on a Saturday. I can't recall the host's name - short first name, long last name, something like "Jon Birmingham" - but this entire show had two points to it: 1) A lot of shots at Arsenio, and 2) it was in Chicago. He even said during his monologue "Look, Arsenio - in Chicago, we INVENTED the bark." To which the studio audience enthusiastically responded with barks. The closing of this show was a big musical number with the apparent title "Going Crazy Here in Chicago" Did I make it all up? If so, do you know a good shrink?

07:46 ...don name of song please

"Individualism wins trophies....teamwork wins pennants." .......who's gonna tell him?