Jo Lasorda was born Joan Miller in Greenville, S.C. on March 14, 1930, and met Tommy Lasorda at a Greenville Spinners minor league baseball game in 1949, when . He was 93. data-styled.g118[id="sc-global-iSmFBW1"]{content:"sc-global-iSmFBW1,"}/*!sc*/ Norristown, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA, Fullerton, Orange County, California, USA. 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