Found September 23, 2009 on Washington Times:
Tommy Lasorda's 82nd birthday just might have been his best. With dozens of friends and relatives looking on, the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery put Lasorda's portrait on display Tuesday, and for once the effervescent Hall of Fame manager was almost speechless. Almost. "I felt like I died," Lasorda admitted after hearing portrait gallery director Martin Sullivan, Dodgers CEO Jamie McCourt and baseball commissioner Bud Selig say nice things about him in the gallery's McEvoy Auditorium. "I can't believe something like this is happening. Right now I feel like my mother is going to wake me up and say, 'Tommy, it's ... Email </a
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