Tommy Lasorda on Dave Kingman

[Gym Rat]

 

I mean, Jesus Christ!!

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[IroNat]

https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/sandy-koufax/

It was more than two months into the 1955 season before Koufax made his major-league debut. Early in the season, he injured his ankle and wound up on the disabled list. Tommy Lasorda was the odd man out on June 8, when he was demoted to the minor-league Montreal Royals to make room for Koufax. Lasorda liked to say, “It took the greatest left-handed pitcher in baseball history to get me off that Brooklyn club – and I still think they made a mistake.”