Italian baseball team names itself after Tommy Lasorda, will soon have to let out uniforms

Just as VIto Corleone took the name of his home town in Italy and made it infamous in the U.S., a baseball team from Italy did just the reverse, naming themselves after their mentor and idol, former Dodgers manager Tommy Lasorda. Make no mistake; playing for the Tom Lasordas carries with it an awesome responsibility. First, there’s all the porn you have to keep up on. You have to swear like a stevedore, even though there are probably Catholic priests in the crowd. And it’s hard to run the bases after a pregame meal of scarole and beans, hot peppers and sausage. But you do it for the team.

Lasorda sends this Twitpic with the caption: Twitpic of the Day: This team from Tollo, Italy named themselves after me. I worked with them in ’85.
They’ve replaced a few players since then, I hope.
Lasorda says that his father was born in Tollo, which is why the visit, I assume.
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Tommy Lasorda Twitpic