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April 16, 2008

Pope visit: Tommy Lasorda's impressions at White House

WASHINGTON -- Among those attending Pope Benedict XVI's White House visit today was Tommy Lasorda, the former Los Angeles Dodgers manager, who said: "This is a day that I'll remember for the rest of my life. I'll remember the pope coming coming here and sharing his love for this country."

Comparing the ceremonial layout of the South Lawn to that of a baseball diamond, Lasorda said: "I was about as far away from the pope as Jeff Kent is when he's playing second base." (Translation for Red Sox Nation: Kent plays for the Dodgers).

Lasorda said the message he heard from Benedict was "we're all brothers and we're all sisters and we have to live like that and we have to appreciate life."

-- projo.com staff writer Michael P. McKinney, with reports from John E. Mulligan of the Journal Washington Bureau

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