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- Posted May 8, 2012 at 7:51 am

Former Los Angeles Dodgers Manager Tommy Lasorda
Administrator’s Note: This front-page article was published in last week’s Wall Street Journal.
THE A-HED
Updated May 2, 2012, 12:44 p.m. ET
Locals Call In Baseball’s Tommy Lasorda to Rally for Ontario; Hearing Birds Chirp
By TAMARA AUDI
ONTARIO, Calif.—The Ontario International Airport, 35 miles east of Los Angeles, offers nonstop flights to just 15 cities. Daily departures have plummeted to 62, less than half the number five years ago.
Baseball legend Tommy Lasorda has pitched for the Dodgers and for Rolaids and Slim Fast. Now he’s doing commercials for a struggling regional airport trying to win independence from Los Angeles.
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