Lasorda University: A Recollection of My Summer of '68 with Tommy Lasorda and the Ogden Dodgers
- ISBN-10
- ISBN-13
- 9798351146331
- Category
- Baseball scouts
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2022-09-05
- Publisher
- Independently Published
- Author
- Zack Minasian
Description
"I was a 16-year-old kid spending my third summer as the clubhouse manager for the Odgen Dodgers, an entry-level professional baseball team, under the tutelage of the great Tommy Lasorda. For me, it turned out to be a summer like no other. Not only did I get to witness the blossoming of several future superstars of the sport, like Steve Garvey, Bobby Valentine, Tom Paciorek, and Bill Burkner, but I learned about leadership and life from one of the greatest baseball managers of all time. It was to be Tommy's last year managing a team in the Pioneer League, and the team was engaged in a tough race for the pennant. This is the story of that magical season where those three short months were transformed into a lifetime of experience. It's many things -- my coming of age story, my rite of passage tale, but mostly it provides a highly personal glimpse of Tommy Lasorda as few knew him. It's his sotry as well. In the book I recount how I watched as he took a bunch of young, raw, inexperienced players who had never played professionally before and transformed them into a championship caliber team. Please join me as I, and some of the members of that summer's 1968 Pioneer League Team, recount the remembrances and recollections of the man himself and that one, magical season."--Back cover.
