This Pic is Cooler than I Originally Thought

I am so annoyed with myself right now, and as I am wont to do these days, I blame it on the flu.

What happened is last week I ran across the above vintage 1955 press photo on eBay (link here) featuring an in-action pic of Tommy Lasorda. Knowing how rare something like this is to see (considering how short his playing career was) I focused on just that fact... But, as helpfully pointed out by Jon Weisman on twitter, it proved to be so much more interesting than that.

First of all, this photo is actually from Tommy Lasorda's first and only start as a Dodger pitcher on May 5, 1955. And if you know your Lasorda history you know that this game was a disastrous beginning to his Major League playing…