The singer, a huge baseball fan who appeared in the appeared in the 2012 film The Trouble with the Curve alongside Clint Eastwood and Amy Adams, noted that Lasorda wanted watch him rehearse for a past appearance on SNL.
“A real legend and one hell of a man,” Timberlake wrote. “I feel lucky to have shared time with you Mr. ‘Tommy’ Lasorda. I’m sure you’re already raising a little bit of hell up there…”
Losorda managed the Dodgers for nearly 20 years and led the team to four National League pennants and World Series titles in 1981 and 1988. He retired as the L.A. club’s manager in 1996. The sports icon was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame one year later.
Other music stars also paid tribute on social media to Lasorda following his death, including Brad Paisley, Toby Keith and Snoop Dogg.
“Kick some dirt at the umpires up there Tommy,” Paisley captioned a short video of a Lasorda bobblehead figurine.
