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40 years ago today

I was standing next to Paul. First MLB game I covered. It was Mother's Day. It wasn't May 1.

May 14.

Here's the Lasorda recap of things to Jerry Crowe in 2009.

Olden can still hear the answer to one question

"Let me preface this," the former manager says, in all seriousness. "I've been married 59 years and I have never used one word of profanity in front of my wife. Never. On the field, I was bad, and I'm not proud of that. But that's on the field."

Still, Lasorda notes, he harbors no ill will toward Olden.

"I don't hold him responsible, and I told him that," Lasorda says. "He was doing his job. I probably shouldn't have talked like that, but I didn't think he would play it. . . .

"I was very, very upset. I was being honored that night by [the] Cystic Fibrosis [Foundation] and I no more wanted to go there than I wanted to jump off this stadium."
 

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