I Live for This!: Baseball's Last True Believer
 
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An award-winning sportswriter shows us one of baseball's most famous and enduring legends as we've never seen him before, revealing the secrets of his amazing, unlikely success and his unvarnished opinions on the state of the game.  Tommy Lasorda is perhaps baseball's most famous and popular figure. At seventy-nine, after twenty years of managing and fifty-seven years with one franchise, this Hall of Famer still suits up in Dodger Blue every day. He also keeps a travel schedule that would dizzy the most frequent of frequent fliers. The embodiment of the American dream, Lasorda went from a scrawny, overlooked Italian kid of average ability to become one of the world's most recognizable baseball faces. And he fought for it every step of the way.  In I Live for This Bill Plaschke strips the veneer from one of baseball's last living legends to show how grit and determination really can transform a life. We think we know this jovial manager from the rah-rah style that has always raised eyebrows in the world of baseball. Some view him as an anachronism. Some love him like Santa Claus. But there's one thing they all agree on: Lasorda is a success.  With gleaming insight and remarkable candor, Plaschke takes us inside the day-to-day world of this baseball great to reveal a side of Lasorda that few people really know. And along the way, we're treated to some of the most outrageous stories in sports. We also discover Lasorda's unshakable opinions about what plagues baseball today.  Bravely and brilliantly, I Live for This dissects the personality to give us the person. In the end we're left with an indelible portrait of a legend that, if Lasorda has anything to say about it, we won't ever forget.  

About the Author
Bill Plaschke has been a sports columnist at the Los Angeles Times since 1996 and is a regular panelist on the ESPN daily talk show, &quot'Around The Horn.&quot' Named National Sports Columnist of the Year by a variety of organizations, including Associated Press, Sigma Delta Chi, and Ntional Headliners, Plaschke has also been nominated for a Pulitzer Prize and his work has been featured in several editions of &quot'Best American Sports Writing.&quot' He is the author of three books, including a collection of his sportswriting. He lives in La Canada, California with his wife and three children. Tommy Lasorda is one of the most enthusiastic and successful managers in baseball history, a Hall of Famer known asmuch for his personaltiy as his managing prowess, who led the Dodgers to 8 division titles and 2 world championships in his storied 21 seasons as manager. Famous in five continents, he also managed the US to its first ever gold medal in baseball in the 2000 Sydney Olympics. He is still active in the Dodger organization, serving currently as special advisor to the president. He was named the official ambassador of the World Baseball Classic and continues to lecture internationally, promoting baseball around the world.

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08 Nov 2007

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Plaschke, Bill

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