He Adds Some Spice to Their Married Life

When she can lasso her husband long enough, Jo Lasorda takes the Dodgers’ manager with her to supermarkets and department stores to promote the couple’s pasta sauce.

“He talks to people and signs autographs, but I have to be there to keep things moving,” Jo says. “Tommy talks to everybody like they are old friends. Everybody knows so and so or has a nephew in Australia who played for a friend of Tommy’s in Little League in Japan. He’ll talk all day. I have to tell him, ‘Dad, this is not a reunion, this is a sauce demonstration.’ ”

Add Lasorda: “Some people come up and taste the sauce and then say, and I love this part, ‘Well, I’m Italian, I’m from the Old Country, and this is how I make sauce.’ And I tell them, ‘Well, I’m not Italian, I just married an Italian. I’m from South Carolina, and this is how I make mine.’ They look at me like, ‘How can you make sauce if you are from the South?’ Like all I should be making is gravy.”

Trivia time: Name the two Olympic athletes who starred in “Tarzan’s Revenge.”

Different tune: The musical, “Damn Yankees,” is scheduled to open March 3 on Broadway. But not long before the show first appeared, in May of 1955, the New York Yankees had won five consecutive World Series and would follow with a string of four consecutive American League pennants. This led Murray Chass of the New York Times to ask: “What is there now to motivate Shoeless Joe from Hannibal, Mo., to sell his soul to the devil so he can help beat the Yankees? Maybe he should sell his soul to George Steinbrenner and help the Yankees win.”

Add Chass: “In case Shoeless Joe has been napping since the show’s first Broadway tour ended, someone should tell him the Yankees haven’t won a pennant since 1981. The 12-year drought is the franchise’s longest since the first two decades of the century.”

For the fan: Baseball Weekly recently listed 61 Don’t Miss Places in Baseball. Among them was No. 56--Lefty O’Doul’s bar in San Francisco, named after the former two-time batting champion and popular manager of the old San Francisco Seals in the Pacific Coast League. The publication noted that O’Doul is the same guy who once told young Ted Williams, “Kid, don’t let anybody ever try to change the way you hit.”

Add list: No. 50 was the unique seating offered at Sky Sox Stadium, home of the minor league Colorado Springs Sky Sox. For $80, a party of 10 can watch the game from the privacy of a hot tub. Concessionaires cater tubside.

Whoops: When free agent Otis Nixon signed with Boston, the Red Sox were so happy to have the speedy outfielder they told him he could wear No. 1 as he did with the Atlanta Braves. The only problem was the Red Sox had retired that number in honor of Hall of Fame member Bobby Doerr.

Nixon will wear No. 2.

Gutter talk: From World Features Syndicate comes this list--Pro bowlers who don’t need a nickname:

1. Dale Strike.

2. Dave Frame.

3. Bill Lane.

4. Curv Rohler.

5. Paul Boehler.

Trivia answer: Glenn Morris, 1936 decathlon champion, played Tarzan; Eleanor Holm, 1932 backstroke champion, played Jane.

Quotebook: Pat Summerall, talking about his move to Fox: “I can say, ‘Stay Tuned for ‘Married . . . With Children,’ as easily as I can say, ‘Murder, She Wrote.’ ”