"Tommy loved family, the United States, the National Pastime and the Dodgers, and he made them all proud during a memorable baseball life." In total, Lasorda was with the Dodgers organization for ...

Alyson Habetz, current head coach of the Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns softball team, had a long history with the university, even attending a baseball camp there as a child where she met Tommy Lasorda.

It was where she would cement her love for baseball and soon softball. And she met a legend along the way. “I was the first in line to get an autograph,” Habetz said. “Tommy Lasorda was here ...