Father's Day
I just returned from an exhausting trip with Michael Milken to promote the Prostate Cancer Foundation's Home Run Challenge. Here are 10 things to know about prostate cancer:
1. One in every six American men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer. In 2007 more than 218,000 men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer.
2. A man is 35% more likely to develop prostate cancer than a woman is to develop breast cancer.
3. A non-smoking man is more likely to develop prostate cancer than he is to develop colon, bladder, melanoma lymphoma and kidney cancer combined.
4. Men with a single first-degree relative - father, brother or son - with a history of prostate cancer are twice as likely to develop the disease, while those with two or more relatives are nearly four times as likely to be diagnosed.
5. African-American men are at increased risk for the disease. African-American men are 56% more likely to develop prostate cancer compared with Caucasian men and nearly 2.5 times as likely to die from the disease.
6. Prostate cancer is the second leading cause of male death in the United States. More than 27,000 men will die from the disease this year alone. That's one every nineteen minutes.
7. More than 2 million men are currently living with prostate cancer.
8. As men age their risk of developing prostate cancer increases exponentially. More than 65% of all prostate cancers are diagnosed in men over the age of 65.
9. Men should consider annual screenings for prostate cancer beginning at age 50. Men at high risk should begin testing at age 45.
10. Screening for prostate cancer takes less than 10 minutes ans is covered by health insurance in many states.
I read your above blog and I'm well aware of the prostate cancer desease. I enjoy commenting on your blog and I'm looking forward to tuesday at 5:00 PM ET. I hope to see you again at Bamonte's restaurant, someday, where you gave me your autograph on July 10, 1993. I also got one from Mike Piazza and Eric Karros on on that night, which I treasure, after a Saturday afternoon game at Shea. Oh by the way, I'm a Dodger Fan.
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In my above post, I forgot to wish you a Happy Fathers Day. I'd also like to state that all three autographs are on one large piece of paper, which I was, luckily, in the presence of mind, to remember to date it. When I said I treasured, I meant all three. I told you a story in your last blog, which I hope you had a chance to read. I hope to make a trip to LA in the near future, if we meet again, and it would be for the third time(read story), I will ask you to sign the back of the 7/10/93 one.
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In 1982 my father had his picture taken with you @ spring training camp in Florida. He passed away at age 90 in 1998 from prostate cancer but was so proud of this picture. I now have the picture(you in your #2 Dodger uniform)and wonder if there is a way I can get your autograph on the picture for my Grandsons.
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Dear Mr. Lasorda my name is Lou Ruchser. Does the last name ring a bell? My deceased father was a dodger farm hand from '46-'51. He a first baseman. Got hurt in Cuba and was replaced by Jackie Robinson on roster.Incidentially Dixie Walker invented the practice screens used before the game as a result on my Dad's injury. Drop me line---Lou Ruchser
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i was wondering mr.lasorda, if you guys win the world seires do your brodcaster get a championship ring?
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Dear Mr. Lasorda,
Thirty years ago today, I had the great privelege of meeting you. You were signing editions of the book "Los Angeles Dodgers: The First Twenty Years." I was thrilled to meet you and purchased the book for you to sign. You wrote "To Ken, a true Dodger fan who bleeds Dodger Blue. Best Wishes, Tom Lasorda 7/7/77" It is that date that inspired me to write you today being 7/7/07. Your words are something I will always treasure and will have for my children whom I am raising to be "Dodger fans who bleed Dodger Blue." Best wishes, Kenneth Peterson 7/7/07
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WOW, you "my tommy" have a blog. You don't know me or know the fact that you are my tommy, but every person that has ever known me knows. I have been a fan all my life. My grandmother used to listen to the dodger games on a little transister radio while ironing her clothes. I became a dodger fan back then and a tommy fan. I watched you coach the olympic team and I cried too. Have a wonderful day, blog, life and thank you for so many years of joy. I'll check your blog from time to time I'm sure this is not the last time you'll hear from me.
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Tommy, you are a waste of skin, and and a complete A**Hole. You say you are a true ambassador for the game? When the cameras are on, you are the BEST there is, but as soon as the cameras stop rolling you turn into the devil. So the next time you tell a person to say please and thank you, maybe you should thank them for even knowing who you are.
Dodger Blue Forever
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Tommy: I have been a dodger fan since the age of 7 when I went to a Reds-Dodger game with my uncle. They all rooted for the "other" team but not me I was smart I went for the Blue team and have bled dodger blue for the rest of my sixty-five years. It has been wonderful to see both you and Walter Alston manage the Dodgers for all these years. I stay up until the wee hours of the morning in Dayton Ohio and watch the games on our program. I am a handicapped person and it has helped me get through the summer having the dodgers to root for. May God bless you and thank you for the wonderful years and being able to watch you and enjoy you as manager for the Dodgers. I always enjoy seeing you on shows, etc.
Sincerly, Dodgerauntfranny@aol.com
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