love to have a man on second base good to our you know him by saying one thing that i have that tony la russa have taught me was every year bad it's a good like it's your last about your career and every bad say like this game seven of the worst series and i believe ass in sudan was in two thousand and one plus why out of proportion to the population did you mean they didn't succeed quite maybe their plan to end their food there we. announced today on larry king now. larry king now we are in the beautiful diamond club overlooks home plate at angel stadium of anaheim and i'm joined by future hall of famer nine time all star three time national league m.v.p. two time golden globe gold when i got to the golden globes of the. world series one of the great players ever to grace a baseball field albert pool halls the only player in history to bat at least three hundred with thirty doubles and thirty home runs and one hundred r.b.i. is in his first ten seasons and this year the twenty six player and major league history to him. five hundred home runs where you started you. think you would be a great

. >>> tony la russa is in cooperstown. he managed his way to three world series titles, two games with the cardinals in the last few years. but 25 years ago when the a's beat the giants. la russa led oakland to three consecutive world series. today he entered the hall of fame. long them yankees manager, and pitchers greg maddox and greg glavine. >> for years i've heard tony is prepared, our team is prepared. preparing is just studying for the test. i think what our teams did was we took the test. we completed like fanatics. >> hey, jim harbaugh, can you put frank in some bubble wrap for me. in the second time for three days, the 49ers suffer an injury. michael james is expected to miss a month. dislocated his elbow in a blitz blocking play. james has suffered this injury before to his right elbow during his playing days at oregon. >>> story book stuff at the sonoma nationals. john force is a legend in the sport. yet after today his lifetime record against daughter courtney is 5-6. the two squaring off in the funny car fina

afternoon as former braves pitchers tom glavine and greg maddux and bobby cox, also inducted were tony la russa and frank thomas of columbus, georgia. >> you can be someone special if you really work at it. i take that to heart, pops. look at us today! [applause] >> the u.s. open of surfing is urngd way in huntington beach, california. it is a little bit different scaled down to avoid some of the riding that took place last year. nine day competition. >>> a group of thieves in texas picked the wrong convenience store to target. they were trying to jump an employee in the parking lot as he carried money in the bank. they didn't know this man's co-worker here in gray was a mixed martial arts competitor from sri lanka. the others got away. >>> still to come. a reporter's notebook from barry petersen. to eliminate gas bubbles in minutes for effective relief. dulcogas, from the makers of dulcolax- nothing relieves gas faster. take them on the way you always have. live healthy and take one a day men's 50+. a complete multivitamin with 7 antioxidants to support cell health. age? who cares. this is a m

also inducted were tony la russa joe torre and frank thomas of the chicago white sox of columbus, georgia. >> you can be someone special if you really work at it. i take that to heart, pops. look at us today! ( applause ) >> thomas, maddux and glavine were both first ballot hall of famers. >> the u.s. open of surfing is under way in huntington beach, california. al is a little bit different this year, scaled down to avoid some of the rioting that took place last year at the nine day competition. >>> a group of thieves in texas picked the wrong convenience store to target. they were trying to jump an employee in the parking lot as he carried money from the bank. they didn't know this man's co- worker who you can see here in gray was a professional mixed martial arts competitor from sri lanka. xee of the men were arrested. the others got away. >> still ahead, lessons little kids shouldn't have to learn. a reporter's notebook from barry petersen. 't have to learn. a reporter's noteb peters >> we close tonight with a story from barry petersen. barry has been covering the ongoing conflict betw

class included pitchers greg maddox and tom glavine, frank thomas and joe torey, bobby cox and tony la russa. >>> a special tribute to a fallen u.s. marine, after nine years, finally found its way to where it was intended to end up. with his family. and tonight an american flag signed with other messages from his unit provides comfort to his still grieving mom. as we hear from mark potter. >> reporter: patsy has always treasured the flag that draped her son's coffin nine years ago. fred was killed in a helicopter crash in iraq. >> he told me he wanted to be a marine. he died doing what he loved. >> reporter: now come an unexpected tribute to her fallen son, from complete strangers, who found another flag with very special meaning at a texas flea market. lany brown bought the flag with her husband for only $5 because it was covered with writing. they showed it to their son, a u.s. marine. >> as soon as he looked at it, he said, dad, this is a tribute flag. everybody in the unit signs it whenever a marine falls roirt that marine was fred. through facebook, the browns were able to find patsy, h

they included greg maddox and tom glavine and frank thomas and joe torre, bobby cox and tony la russa> and a special tribute to a fallen u.s. marine has after nine years finally found its way to where it was intended to end up, with his family. tonight an american flag signed with messages from other marines in his unit is providing immense comfort to his still grieving mom as we hear from mark potter. >> reporter: patsy masio always treasured the american flag that draped her son's coffin nine years ago. her son was killed in a help captainer crash in iraq. >> he told me he was going to be a marine. so he died doing what he loved. >> reporter: now has come an unexpected tribute to her fallen son from complete strangers who found another flag with very special meaning at a texas flea market. lany brown bought the flag with her husband for $5 because it was covered with writing. they showed it to their son, a u.s. marine. >> as soon as he looked at it, he said dad this is a tribute flag. everybody in the unit signs it when a marine falls. >> reporter: that marine was fred masio. throug

managers joe torre, tony la russa, and bobby cox combined for eight world series win.ers greg maddux and tom glavine were atlanta teammates and won a total of 668 games. and former chicago white sox slugger frank thomas is the latest member of the 500 home run club to enter cooperstown. he paid tribute to his late father in his speech. >> thanks for pushing me and always preaching to me. you can be someone special if you really work at it. i took that to heart, pops. look at us today. >> after his speech, torre, the former new york yankees manager apologized for leaving out a thank-you to late yankees owner george steinbrenner. >>> cleveland cavalier fans who didn't burn their lebron james jerseys when he left cleveland four years ago are pretty happy today. james announced sunday he'll once again wear 23 when he returns to the team this fall. he wore that number during the first seven years of his career in cleveland. james was number six while in miami. >>> coming up, tower tensions at the busiest airport in the world. >> okay. because, my god, there's another plane

also managers bobby cox, tony la russa, players tom glavine and greg maddux and frank thomas. >> you can be someone special, if you really work at it. i took that to heart, pops. look at us today. >> what a day it was for him. >>> an italian has won the tour de france for the first time in 16 years. vincenzo nibali finished on top to claim his first tour de france victory. he earned it with so many injuries this year. >>> to the indy 400. jeff gordon declared that victory. gordon increases his lead in the cup series to 24 points over dale earnhardt jr. >>> a small shove here at the mound turning into it a bench-clearing frenzy. players pushing into the front rows of the stand while punches were thrown. look at the dust. a aaa ball game in albuquerque and reno. look at that. >>> and the colorado rockies committed an error in spelling. colorado handing out 15,000 jerseys of shortstop troy tulowitzki. but they messed up his name. foul ball here, they forgot the second "t" in tulowitzki. that's too bad? forgot the "t"s, too. >>> it's one of the most anticipated movie sequels ever. up nex

it to the next one it's like one day at a time one are bad times and one thing that i have that tony la russa me was a bad is you lies about your career in every bad state like this again seven zero there were serious and i believe that since you've been won in two thousand and one it has helped me with this it says that i have so i give a lot of credit to tony even now he doesn't like to take any credit but you know he told me that on all the time that he'd tell me was what do you prefer to hit three hundred. thirty homers saying obviously you know homers is that thing on say thirty is like a routine mistake if you had three hundred you're going to have you share homer. and you're going to morrow for two in a do you want to help this ball club because you want to come through with the bases and score that grown from second base so they're basing something you know as a rookie you don't know that but the quicker that i learned the better it was for me to understand other sports yeah i love golf i log off. more of i call it more than i'm a i'm a huge fan of them be a to. really go off they wil

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. >> cooperstown welcomed tony la russa. he managed his way to three world series titles and two came with the cardinals. but his first is one we will all remember. 25 years ago when the a's beat the giants in the bay bridge series. today he joined a six-member class and among them another frank thomas. yankees manager joe torre and three atlanta braifts, bobbie box and greg maddux and tom glavine. >> for years i heard tony is prepared. our team is prepared. preparing is studying for the test. our team took the test. we competed like fanatics. >> i mentioned thomas. "the big hurt" goes in as a white sox, but he had a memorable season for the a's with 39 home runs and drove in 114 runs. thomas overcome with emotion in his acceptance speech today. >> we are a long way from columbus, georgia. i know it wasn't easy, but i thank you for raising us all. >> thanking mom and dad. when in doubt thanking mom and dad. >> thank you, colin. and we have another update on our breaking news. evacuations are underway in san jose due to a two

former as manager tony la russa and frank thomas. anager, la russa won three world series and six pen nans. here's what the former as skipper had to say. >> you go to oakland and yet same combination in chicago and st. louis. you had wonderful ownership. all repped here today. you had a great front office all represented here today. and then we had hall of famers. two of them are back here. ricky, and i believe the way to accept this tremendous honor is as a representative of all those mentors, coaches, and members of the chicago white sox and oakland as and st. louis cardinals. >>> friendly between the san jose earthquakes and madrid in candlestick park. pk wins it for. them. 4-3 is your final. looks like he was going left. psyche. he goes right for the victory. don't forget the giants kick off a new series at the pirates tomorrow night. catch the action at 7:00 right here on nbc bay area. >>> by the way, terry, peggy, i'm going to be gone for the next two weeks. >> ugh. >> yes. i decided to try out for the running back for the san f

inducting pitchers greg maddux and tom glavine, slugger frank thomas and then managers bobby cox, tony la russa and joe torre. it was an emotional-filled day with frank thomas giving a very special message to his late father. >> thanks for pushing me and always preaching to me, you can be someone special if you really work at it. i took that to heart, pops. look at us today. >> a crowd of nearly 50,000 gathering at the hall in cooperstown, new york, to celebrate. >>> well, it is now 11 minutes after the hour, and crowds screaming in terror at a zombie walk? but this thing had nothing to do with costumes. we'll tell you what caused a driver to plow right through that crowd. >>> and a life-changing flea market find. how the stars and stripes tribute will make you proud to be an american. >>> but first, let's look at your gasoline prices. the new national average $3.52. ♪ this magic moment ♪ when laquinta.com sends him a ready for you alert the second his room is ready, ya know what salesman alan ames becomes? i think the numbers speak for themselves. i'm sold! a "selling machine!" ready for you a

love to have a man on second base good to our you know him by saying one thing that i have that tony la russa have taught me was every year bad take it like it's your lies about your career and every bad say like this again said they were serious and i believe essence of the one in two thousand and one plus why out of proportion to the population to do when they did succeed what made the plantain and their food their we. announce today on larry king now. larry king now we are in the beautiful diamond. plate at the polo angel stadium of anaheim and i'm joined by future hall of famer nine time all star three time national league m.v.p. two time golden globe globe when i got to the golden globes of the. world series one of the great players ever to grace a baseball field albert pool halls the only player in history to bat at least three hundred with thirty doubles and thirty home runs and one hundred r.b.i. is in his first ten seasons and this year the twenty six player and major league history to hit five hundred home runs when he started u. conn's.

>> teri he managed so many thyroid players -- steroid players, tony la russa does not belong in the hall. >> we've got a number of e- mails. i'm a test of time guy. he was a winner in chicago, winner with the as, ones with bobby cox and joe torre go in as managers of the hall of fame on sunday. i don't think you will last as long as he has if you count an early playing career, he wasn't that good a player, 50 years in baseball, i think he deserves it and i'm a little friendly with him so obviously i'm biased but -- >> yeah. >> you know, it wasn't just steroids that made him a great manager. >> for sure. that is true. mark maguire says he will never talk to jose con sec -- canseco again. you both cheated and both rich. >> canseco said to be broke. but maguire, once defense -- one defense of all the guys in the steroid, he was the guy most embarrassed, he's the guy that went on capitol hill and made a spectacle of himself when he teared up and wouldn't answer the question so of all the guys i think canseco ruined him more than anybody because he's more of a withdrawn guy, maguire, so if th

we should mention also being honored, tony la russa tom glavine and greg maddux.of fame. back to you. >> we should say not only great baseball people, great people. nice guys. natalie, thank you so much. >>> up next, new grilling gadgets take your back yard barbecue to the next level. we'll ask the folks at consumer reports about that. first this is "today" on nbc. >>> all right. welcome back to "today," grilling to help make your life easier and even make your food taste better. which ones are worth your money? the folks at consumer reports and the senior editor mandy walker is here with the results. good to see you. >> good to see. >> you can we start talking about what they call infrared grills? >> yeah. >> they have been around a while. water the advantage to them? >> they keep the food really hot, they do great searing. there is a metal plate that radiates the heat back to your food. the product is they're not created equal. some have problems with low temperature cooking. >> the price, has it come down? i know it used to be expensive. >> you can find them ju

enshrined into cooperstown, pitching grates tom glavine and tom maddux, frank thomas, bobby cox, tony la russad joe torre. torre was apologetic after the ceremony because he forgot to thank long-time yankees owner george steinbrenner. nba fans who already own a lebron james cleveland cavaliers jersey can let out a big sigh of relief, lebron announcing on instagram over the weekend that he's going to go back to the number 23. king james changed to the number six when he took his talents to south beach. >>> bulls owner jim irsay awaiting punishment for his charge of driving under the influence and possession of prescription drugs. he had 29 grand on him at the time of his arrest. still keeping cash on hand, he made it rain at colts training camp. irsay handing out $100 bills to fans who were there just to watch practice. how about that? the owner walks up and gives you a $100 bill. >> you're texas fans, you don't need to be paid. colts fans apparently need to be paid. >> whoa, easy. i'm wearing my colts colors. i didn't realize that. >> did somebody pay you to do that, since apparently it takes

eckersley, former manager tony la russa and jose conseco will be at the ballpark all weekend as partf the festivities. conseco admitted being anxious about how he would be received after all those years of controversy. >> i'm kind of nervous right now, as you can tell. i don't know. i'm scared, nervous at the same time. i'm hoping we can concentrate on baseball and celebrate the game, which is the best game in the world right now. >> tonight's game is scheduled to start at 6:05. proceeds from all events during the weekend will benefit the angelmen syndrome foundation, the preferred charity of former player dave henderson. >>> san francisco giants open the second half of the season on the road in hot florida, taking on the marlins and showing some pop right off the bat. top of two, crawford on a 3-2 fastball, slaps it to right field, bringing in michael morris. it's 2-0 giants. 5-0 in the fifth, sandoval wants to get into the mix. that's a three-run beauty, also into the right field bullpen. madison bumgarner tosses six solid innings and gets his 11th win of the season. >>> well, sear