By: Van Mitchell
Special to Guthrie News Page
Hall of Fame baseball manager Tommy Lasorda will be participating in a fundraiser on Saturday, Jan. 23 benefitting the Territorial Capital Sports Museum and the Guthrie High School Fellowship of Christian Athletes.
The Territorial Capital Sports Museum along with the Oklahoma Baseball Coaches Association Hall of Fame is hosting a pancake breakfast at 9 a.m. at the museum located at 315 West Oklahoma.
Tickets are $25 per person. Sponsors of the event are the Oklahoma City Dodgers and the Guthrie Lions Club.
“Tommy is just a spokesman for baseball,” said Richard Hendricks, director of the Guthrie museum. “He is going to be an honorary inductee into the Oklahoma Baseball Coaches Association Hall of Fame which we host right here.”
Lasorda became the Los Angeles Dodgers manager Sept. 29, 1976. He compiled a 1,599–1,439 record as Dodgers manager, won two World Series championships in (1981 and 1988), four National League pennants and eight division titles in his 20-year career as the Dodgers manager.
His 16 wins in 30 NL Championship games managed were the most of any manager at the time of his retirement. His 61 post-season games managed ranks fourth all-time behind Bobby Cox, Casey Stengel and Joe Torre. He also managed in four All-Star games.
He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1997 as a manager in his first year of eligibility. The Dodgers retired his uniform number (2) on Aug. 15, 1997 and renamed a street in Dodgertown as “Tommy Lasorda Lane.”
Several Oklahoma athletes have played for the Dodgers including Jim Gentile of Edmond, Brad Penny of Broken Arrow and Ted Power of Guthrie.
Hendricks said the breakfast takes place the same weekend as the Oklahoma Baseball Coaches Association Baseball 50th Winter Classic held at the Biltmore Hotel in Oklahoma City. Included in the weekend activities is the Oklahoma Baseball Coaches Association Hall of Fame and Coach of the Year banquet.
For more information about the fundraiser call Hendricks at (405) 414-1342 and for information about the Territorial Capital Sports Museum call (405) 260-1342 or visit www.territorialcapitalsportsmuseum.org
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