Tommy Lasorda

AT SPRING TRAINING Tommy Lasorda was overheard telling Joe Torre about his frustration at a lunch counter: "So I order a six-foot hero, and the guy says, 'What's that?' I say, 'It's like a regular hero, but it's six...

HIGH In The Happiest Man in the World, Alec Wilkinson profiles Poppa Neutrino, a free-spirited 70-something who crosses the Atlantic on a raft built from trash. Is Neutrino nuts? Maybe, but he'll make you long to...

I've been saving this column for a rainy day. This spring the Giants had consecutive home rainouts for the first time since 1961, the Reds were rained out of batting practice for a full week, and the Red Sox have...

Nobody filled the back of a baseball card better than Bert Blyleven, whose name (Aalbert) and birthplace (Zeist) suggested—with alphabetical ambidexterity—that a whole encyclopedia was inside that 2½-by-3½-inch...

JOHN FRANCOLongtime Mets reliever: "You know how Tommy Lasorda says he bleeds Dodger blue? I bleed Met whatever-colors-they-are."