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Dodgers: 10 greatest Tommy Lasorda moments of all time

ByAdam Weinrib|
LOS ANGELES, CA - OCTOBER 1981: Pedro Guerrero #28 pours champagne on Manager Tommy Lasorda #2 of the Los Angeles Dodgers after defeating the Houston Astros in the divisional playoffs at Dodger Stadium, Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Jayne Kamin-Oncea/Getty Images)
LOS ANGELES, CA - OCTOBER 1981: Pedro Guerrero #28 pours champagne on Manager Tommy Lasorda #2 of the Los Angeles Dodgers after defeating the Houston Astros in the divisional playoffs at Dodger Stadium, Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Jayne Kamin-Oncea/Getty Images)
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GLENDALE, AZ – MARCH 03: Tommy Lasorda of Los Angeles Dodgers smiles during a spring training workout on March 3, 2016 in Glendale, Arizona. (Photo by Masterpress/Getty Images)

5. Lasorda Shares His Sense of Humor

There are hundreds of documented examples of Tommy Lasorda being the funniest man in the room, a phenomenon that hasn’t dissipated at all in recent years — in fact, the man crossed over and appealed to the current generation with his appearance on Barstool’s “Pardon My Take” podcast in recent years.

Always quick with a comeback or a quip, we present this 1984 example of Lasorda recalling the “funniest joke he’d ever heard” for a television special.

Hollywood his whole life, Lasorda’s on-screen career includes cameos in “Hart to Hart,” “Simon & Simon,” Rodney Dangerfield’s “Ladybugs,” and “Everybody Loves Raymond”.

Yes, the man loved to ham it up, and the examples are nearly endless.

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