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Tommy Lasorda gets vet spring training workout

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    Veteran gets try with Los Angeles Dodgers

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Inspiring wounded Iraq veteran going from the battlefield to the ball field sending a message to the rest of America Daniel -- Jacobs.

Among eighty hopefuls in the spring training complex of the LA Dodgers.

Hall of fame manager Tom this sort of there has he was there to make it happen.

Analysts.

Just didn't regular invited to send anyone like him you know hit some balls with the Dodgers -- -- server.

It's it's a dream come true but my bigger mission is to show America that want to veterans are still here and we're not gonna lay down a -- statistic.

-- navy corpsman assigned to a marine division in 2006 he was injured by an IED blast then.

Lost his left leg below the knee and sustained other injuries requiring.

More than fifty surgeries to get him where he is today.

Play ball and I.