Dodger Icon Meets Big Dodger in the Sky

Tommy Lasorda always said that if he cut his hand it would bleed Dodger Blue and he often talked about going to see The Big Dodger in the Sky when he died. Well, yesterday he arrived at the pearly gates and immediately took over as the manager for Heaven’s Dodgers. Here was his first lineup card:

Jackie Robinson 2B

Pee Wee Reese SS

Duke Snyder CF

Roy Campanella C

Gil Hodges 1B

Zack Wheat LF

Carl Furillo RF

Jim Gilliam 3B

Don Drysdale P

What follows is the Dodger’ Official Press Release about the Great Tommy Lasorda:

OFFICIAL DODGER PRESS RELEASE

DODGERS MOURN PASSING OF TOMMY LASORDA

LOS ANGELES – Hall of Fame Dodgers’ manager Tommy Lasorda, who spent seven decades in the Dodger organization and became…