EvKirito Posted January 8, 2021 Posted January 8, 2021 The world of baseball is in mourning. Tom Lasorda, manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers, has died at the age of 93. Besides being a mythical element of the Los Angeles team, he was the mentor of one of the best players of the institution, the Mexican Fernando “Toro” Valenzuela. He spent almost two months hospitalized in Southern California and a week ago he returned home. The Dodgers tweeted Tuesday that the 93-year-old former manager left the hospital he was admitted to on Nov. 8 with heart problems. Tom Lasorda leaves the intensive care area His death was on the night of Thursday, January 7, due to a cardiopulmonary attack at his home. Although he was transferred to a hospital for his care, he died at the scene at 10:57 p.m. Lasorda had a history of heart problems, including a 1996 heart attack that ended his managerial career. The news was confirmed by the same team through his Twitter account, in which he highlighted the seven decades that he spent in the organization, where he became one of the most important personalities in baseball history. As a manager for the Dodgers Lasorda made a real name for himself. From 1976 to 1996, the Philadelphia-area native had a 1,599-1439 record and won the 1981 and 1988 World Series as head of the Los Angeles team. In all, his teams won seven division titles and four National League pennants. Lasorda was inducted into the Hall of Fame as a manager in 1997. He led the United States baseball team to the gold medal at the 2000 Sydney Olympics. Before his achievements in the Dodgers cave, Lasorda was successful as a manager in the Dominican Republic, notably leading the Tigres del Licey to the championship and the Caribbean Series in 1972-73. Always loyal to the Dodgers, Lasorda was in his 71st year with the organization. He spent the past 14 years as a special advisor to the team president. Lasorda was a left-handed pitcher at the Major League level with the Dodgers and Brooklyn and the Kansas City Athletics in the 1950s, in addition to his time on the mounds of the professional leagues in Panama and Cuba.
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