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Frank Torre visits

Actually, it was his second time here, but I missed him the first time. He lives about 90 minutes south of here in Palm Beach Gardens. Today, he was riding around with Lasorda on Tommy's golf cart during the intrasquad game, and Tommy introduced me. Joe later told us that Frank would stay with him for three weeks at a time during spring training in Tampa when Joe was managing the Yankees. Frank, a former first baseman for the Braves and Phillies, is 76. ``When he would give me a compliment, it meant more than anything else in the world, because he was tough,'' Joe said of his older brother. ... The intrasquad game was about as interesting as these things tend to be for the press box wags, but for club officials, it was the unofficial first day of evaluation. The home team, knows as the Drysdales, beat the Koufaxes 5-1. John Lindsey went 3 for 3 with a double and two runs. Chin-lung Hu went 2 for 3 with a pair of singles. Matt Kemp tripled and scored on Xavier Paul's sac fly.

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Hopefully people won't freak out if Andy LaRoche has a bad game or two this spring. He unfairly seems to have a short leash with some.

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TONY JACKSON

Tony Jackson has covered the Dodgers for the Daily News since 2004 and has covered Major League Baseball on a regular basis since 1995. He previously covered the Colorado Rockies and Cincinnati Reds. He is a native of Springdale, Ark., and a graduate of the University of Arkansas.
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