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Column: On 88th birthday, Lasorda still bleeds Dodger Blue

Edit The Associated Press 24 Sep 2015
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- It was Tommy Lasorda's 88th birthday, so of course he was spending it at Dodger Stadium. "It's where I belong," the last Dodger manager to win a World Series said. "And where else in the world would I rather be?" ... "He's only 88. I'm 89." ... With his staff pretty much used up, Dodger manager Burt Shotton told Newcombe if he didn't throw many pitches in the first game he was going to start him in the second, too ... ---- ... ....

Diane Cameron: Critical players part of support team for social justice

Edit Times Union 15 Apr 2015
Your role model is Bert Shotton. Shotton managed the Dodgers in 1947 ... Rickey brought Shotton out of retirement to calm and soothe and knit the Dodgers together during that crucial first year. Shotton wasn't colorful or flashy, he just got the most stirred up team in history to settle down and play ball. Red Barber said, "The unsung hero of 1947 was manager Burt Shotton."...

Buddy Hicks, former Detroit Tigers infielder, passes away at 87

Edit The Examiner 08 Dec 2014
Clarence “Buddy” Hicks, a former infielder with the Detroit Tigers in the 1950s, passed away December 8, 2014 in St ... He was 87 ... Dodgers manager Burt Shotton held firm to the Dodger creed that if other teams wanted their players, they would have to dig deep in their coffers ... They’re going to have to come up with their prices if they want our boys,” Burt Shotton was quoted as saying in Bob Mack’s “Bird Hunting in Brooklyn.” ... ....
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