SoCal Sports History 101: The Prime Numbers from 00 to 99 that Uniformly, Uniquely and Unapologetically Explain Our Athletic Heritage

Updated 9.11.26: Scroll to the end of this post for the list of people, places and things so far assigned to numbers 00 to 99.

“Los Angeles is an idea as much as a city. A landscape of imagination and aspiration. Behind the idea of Los Angeles are stories of people, dreamers seeking fortune or reinvention, and those who saw the dream as an illusion. What’s the real history behind the fantasy?”
== Nathan Masters, opening to the PBS series “Lost L.A.”

Imagine Southern California as a place where you hop on a freeway and drive past whatever you’ve been told is disposable entertainment or superficial sunshine.

Outsiders, denying to have any sort of bias jealousy, can default to a theory that greater Southern California is inherently flawed. The sentiment modified over the years has been alternately attributed most notably to Dorothy Parker, Aldous Huxley or H.L. Menken. It’s engraved on a tag hanging from Snoop Dogg’s choke chain.

Creativity undermining stability.

What does the scoreboard say?

Sports, and numbers, can winners, losers and all the value in between.

Especially digits that have, with some real rhyme or reason, somehow get assigned to an athlete.

Los Angeles alone embraces 114 distinct neighborhoods and cities spread across 470 square miles — 10 times the size of San Francisco. Desert, beach and snow-capped mountains in one glimpse. A Hollywood sign looking over a South Central ghetto. All on terrain formed by seismic underpinning, drought, fire, flooding, sliding mud and loose asphalt.

Whose fault is it anyway?

“In an area larger than Rhode Island and Delaware combined, there are countless unincorporated areas, and almost 10 million residents, many of whom aren’t entirely sure what jurisdiction they’re in at any given moment,” Conor Friedersdorf once wrote for The Atlantic in 2011.

Does it really matter? Not if the palate keeps changing as the tectonic plates keep shifting under our feet.

We weather it all by mastering one, if not more, of the 220 languages available in the region, sometimes melding them together. It’s the beauty of diversity.

And a way that sports here seems to easily erase self-imposed boundaries and embrace unity.

Consider SoCal sports history as its own periodic table of 101 elements. Legend, pop culture, scandal. Dreaming dreams, and finding out reality can sometimes meet up and match it.

Star with the No. 32 on your SoCal off ramp, for an example.

Koufax, Magic, O.J., Walton, Marcus.

Quick — who wore that number best?

Who “owned” it? Who inspires the most recognition? Ultimately, a personal preference, linked to nostalgia and an impressionable connection.

That’s how stars and stories align, with numbers providing a language all their own. A love language. Numbers can be a romantic partner in life. They feed mythology, heroics and imagination.

No. 32 is a prime spot to point to not ride the stories of trailblazers, but head off onto some trails still a bit unpaved. Through our own history, we found a few No. 32s that reflect a more telling look. Ones you’ve not likely heard or read about before. That’s our goal.

For our purposes, SoCal territory starts with what falls below 35°45′ latitude. That covers the counties of Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, Ventura, San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara, all distinguishable in their own right, with a connective tissue accessible by freeway, Metrolink or mountain e-bike.

In general typography, SoCal can stretch as far as the Mexico border. We’ll take attitude over latitude here and stick to this Thomas Guide. San Diego will get its own day in the sun. Just not so much here.

If you’ve experienced a traffic tie-up from the backseat of a driverless car, nursed a pulled quad from a yoga stretch and found a gently used pair of Converse All-Stars from the local thrift store, we’ll call it Tuesday.

Now spoil yourself with a $32 influencer-endorsed protein smoothie.

“Los Angeles is a city built upon amnesia and denial,” Tom Curren once wrote for the Los Angeles Times in 2025.

“Graded and paved, bought and sold, it bears little likeness to Tovaangar, the home for the first people who, for thousands of years, walked its valleys and chaparral-clad basins and paddled its broad shorelines. Eventually, they were overtaken, falling silent to the noisy ambitions of foreigners and settlers who set about transforming this vast floodplain with imported water and orchards and homes. Branding their creation paradise, they never questioned their improbable aspirations.

“Instead, they mythologized their works, borrowing from the past what was convenient and discarding the rest, so the picture of the Golden State in the early 20th century was romantic enough to persuade more and more Easterners to board the trains that crossed the deserts to arrive in this transformed pueblo.”

Sports reflects that, and celebrates it.

A melting pot that has shown how a beloved entity like the Dodgers were inclined to leave a foundation set in Brooklyn and discover a new way of doing business.

The Lakers followed suit migrating from Minneapolis. The Rams once held down the region after leaving Cleveland, then, proving you can come home again, circled back after a purgatory in St. Louis. The team had already stretch into Anaheim to see how far “Los Angeles” as a brand could expand. The MLB Angels also took it upon themselves to confuse geography from Los Angeles to Orange County to … California?

The foundation for pro sports came from the two major university-driven successes in the University of Southern California’s private practice and the University of California at Los Angeles’ public persona. They once ruled the landscape. They showed the pros how it could work. They shaped the athletic region, going back to how they participated in the 1932 Summer Olympics, as well as the 1984 Summer Olympics and, now, the 2028 Summer Olympics.

LA28 chair Casey Wasserman said during a press conference in Paris when that city was hosting its version of the Olympics: “I think we are the place in the world where culture is made and culture is started … that’s our incredible history in the film industry or the music business. L.A. has become so much more about fashion and film and food … all of the star power and the opportunity to showcase that to the world, that’s authentically L.A.”

Sports has given the rest of the planet a nice glimpse of this landscape. But there’s far more subplot. We once jammed a baseball World Series championship team into a football stadium, the same place that hosted the very first Super Bowl within a few years afterward. We have imagination and can pivot to what’s needed.

Our Coliseum, perhaps spelled differently from that crumbling relic in Rome but up close not looking all that different, is a colossal community event center. Our Forum has been fabulous in various incarnations. Our modern facilities have taken the current currency of branding.

As long as we’re within 20 minutes from a double chili cheeseburger at Tommy’s Original, or willing to wait in line at an In & Out, we’re all in. We just figure out the numerology, by zip codes, area codes or iPhone QR codes.

Here where you are standing
The dinosaurs did a dance
The Indians told a story
Now it has come to pass
The Indians had a legend
The Spaniards lived for gold
White man came and killed them
But they haven’t really gone

We live in the city of dreams
We drive on this highway of fire
Should we awake
And find it gone
Remember this, our favorite town

“City of Dreams,” Talking Heads, 1986

When Los Angeles proper saw a need to expand its initial 213 area code for those phoning home, overlays started with 310, 323, 626 and 562. We also defined 818 as the San Fernando Valley, 714 as Orange County and 619 as San Diego way. Catalina Island could pick what it wanted from the buffet.

Orange County provides 34 cities in its nearly 1,000 square miles, from Seal Beach to San Clemente, up to Yorba Linda and all surrounding all that is Disneyland. Which isn’t actually a city, but a place for ingenuity in Anaheim.

Southern California’s 805, factoring Santa Barbara, Ventura and San Luis Obispo to the grid, are as close and far as construction on the 101 allows.

The Inland Empire was a name given to Riverside County, where the 909/951 takes up more than 7,000 square miles — roughly the size of New Jersey. It unites 28 more cities. That also brings in Palm Springs and the rest of the High Desert. Linked up with San Bernardino County, that’s another 24 cities stretching from Big Bear and Loma Linda.

So, if the numbers don’t add up, things don’t happen.

If we agree Southern California is a creative space where forces of nature can communicate via numbers — contracts, streaming episodes, tax incentives, and the Fahrenheit/Celsius options — then we see how things start adding up.

Numbers don’t have to just be on standby to quantify or amplify. They measure up logistically at the right moments. They bring us back to history and the symbolism of greatness.

The Bible has its own Book of Numbers for historical context. Who begets whom? That matters because, in sports, numerals assigned provide the common denominators.

Starting at double-zero and zero, from one to 99, our challenge is to find what connects and explains us.

When Russell Carlton wrote “The New Ballgame: The Not-So-Hidden Forces Shaping Modern Baseball,” he observed: “Baseball has always been a game played in two languages … two other tongues that we rarely acknowledge: a narrative language and a numerical one. For the most part they run alongside each other, intersecting where they need to.”

Once you say someone was a .340 lifetime hitter or struck out 19 batters in a game, it enhances an argument and provides a baseline, and seers that into his or her jersey number.

The seeds for this project came in an exercise I did for the Los Angeles Daily News in 2007. A deep dive into the rosters of Southern California’s teams going back to the 1940s — further, if necessary.

Then, the NFL’s Rams and Chargers were elsewhere. Now they co-exist in the same major Inglewood Stadium. The MLB’s Dodgers and Angels, who once shared Dodger Stadium, went on diverted paths. The NBA’s Lakers and Clippers each came into the city via the now-extinct Los Angeles Sports Arena, reconnected at a downtown L.A. facility once named after an office supply store, then went their separate ways.

The NHL’s Kings and Ducks, who once met for an outdoor game at Dodger Stadium, play each other several times a season in what’s called the Freeway Faceoff. The MLS’ Galaxy and LAFC define a population caught up in their El Traffico matchups.

The NWSL’s Angel City FC and the WNBA’s Sparks add their own classy touch.

Colleges go back further: UCLA and USC at the core, Pepperdine and Loyola Marymount drawing from the student pool with Cal State Northridge, Long Beach State, UC Irvine, Cal State L.A., Cal State Fullerton, Cal State Dominguez Hills, UC Riverside, UC Santa Barbara, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, Cal State Pomona. … Los Angeles Trade Tech.

Don’t overlook Whittier College, which created the legend of Richard Nixon.

There was a time when Los Angeles’ lone NFL team was the one and only Raiders (from 1982 to 1994), overlapped by the USFL Los Angeles Express (1982 to 1985), preceded by the All-American Football Conference’s Los Angeles Dons (1946 to 1949) or the Continental Football League’s Los Angeles Mustangs and Orange County Ramblers (1965 to 1969).

There were the ABA’s Anaheim Amigos/Los Angeles Stars (1967-68 to 1969-70); the NASL’s Los Angeles Aztecs (1974-81), MLS’ Chivas (2005-14) and WHL’s Los Angeles Blades (1961 to 1967).

The Pacific Coast League baseball’s Los Angeles Angels and Hollywood Stars had a following. As did the Arena Football League’s L.A. Avengers and L.A. Kiss. Throw in the XFL’s Los Angeles Xtreme.

Roller Derby had its heroes. Motor sports as well. And there were some magnificent thoroughbreds.

Humans qualify for this list as well as gentle beasts and crazy mascots.

There are unexplained stories: Pasadena’s Jackie Robinson wore No. 42 with the Brooklyn Dodgers — retiring before the team moved to L.A. He was far more famous in Southern California wearing No. 28 for UCLA’s football team. He also wore No. 18 playing basketball. What did he wear during his one and only year on the Bruins’ baseball team? The school doesn’t even know.

History never gets old even if we do, an old professor once professed in a class I took at USC. History is also not a study just a glimpse of the past, but a roadmap to the present, something I also learned auditing a class at Cal Lutheran University. Sports history becomes current event when we need context, said an El Camino College writing instructor told a class I was once attending.

“Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles,” Frank Lloyd Wright rightly or wrongly is believed to have said.

We’ve tipping the scales, we hope, in a right way here. Here is the running list as this project evolves:

00 to 9:

No. 00: Benoit Benjamin (Los Angeles Clippers and Lakers):
Sports and a zero-sum proposition

No. 0: Russell Westbrook (Los Angeles Clippers and Lakers, via UCLA and Leuzinger High)
Sports and fashion forward
Includes: Nick Young, Orlando Woolridge, Jack Flaherty

No. 1: Rod Dedeaux (USC baseball)
Sports and a Hollywood High halo
Includes: Pee Wee Reese, James Harden, Jordan Farmar, Dorian Thompson-Robinson, Dot Richardson

No. 2: Lonzo Ball (and LiAngelo, and LaMelo .. and of course, LaVar) (Chino Hills High basketball, UCLA basketball, Los Angeles Lakers)
Sports and Ball in the Family
Includes: Tommy Lasorda, Kawhi Leonard, Morley Drury, Jessica Mendoza, Gianna Bryant

No. 3: Scott Weiland (Edison High of Huntington Beach football)
Sports and future rock fame
Includes: Glenn Burke, Carson Palmer, Willie Davis, Anthony Davis, Candice Parker, Keyshawn Johnson

No. 4: Zenyatta (Santa Anita Park)
Sports and the sport of queens
Includes: Rob Blake, Byron Scott, Duke Snider

No. 5: Hunter Greene (Notre Dame High of Sherman Oaks baseball)
Sports and high school expectations
Includes: Reggie Bush, Albert Pujols, Robert Horry, Freddie Freeman, Kenny Easley

No. 6: Steve Garvey (Los Angeles Dodgers)
Sports and the All-American (not quite) state senator
Includes: Mark Sanchez, Joe Torre, Ron Fairly, Bronny James

No. 7: Todd Marinovich (Mater Dei High and Capistrano Valley High, heading to USC, Los Angeles Raiders, Los Angeles Avengers)
Sports and the “Cautionary Tale”
Includes: Bob Waterfield, Mark Harmon, Matt Barkley, Steve Yeager, Flo Hyman

No. 8: Ralphie Valladares (Los Angeles Thunderbirds)
Sports and Roller Derby
Includes: Troy Aikman, Steve Young, Drew Doughty

No. 9: Lisa Leslie (Los Angeles Sparks via USC women’s basketball and Morningside High)
Sports and Title IX
Includes: Paul Kariya, Matthew Stafford, Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Wally Moon

10 to 19:

No. 10: Landon Donovan (Los Angeles Galaxy via Redlands High)
Sports and soccer’s sacred space
Includes: Carlos Vela, Ron Cey, Norm Nixon, Justin Turner, Justin Herbert, Willie O’Rea, Don Klosterman

No. 11: John Elway (Granada Hills High football and baseball)
Sports and the ‘perfect specimen‘
Includes: Anze Kopitar, Matt Leinart, Pat Haden, Jim Fregosi, Manny Mota, George Best, Bill Sharman, Norm Van Brocklin, Don Barksdale

No. 12: Richard Nixon (Whittier College football and basketball via Fullerton High and Whittier High)
Sports and a Presidential pathway
Includes: Vlade Divac, Charles White, Dusty Baker, Tommy Davis, Juju Watkins, Dwight Howard, Joe Namath

No. 13: Kenny Washington (Los Angeles Rams via UCLA football and Lincoln High in East L.A.)
Sports and the NFL racial barrier
Includes: Wilt Chamberlain, Paul George, Tank Younger, Cotton Warburton, Caleb Williams

No. 14: Ted Tollner (Cal Poly San Luis Obispo football)
Sports and survivors’ remorse
Includes: Mike Scioscia, Johan Cruyff, Gil Hodges, Tina Thompson, Sam Darnold

No. 15: Ann Meyers Drysdale (UCLA basketball via Sonora High in La Habra)
Sports and a feminization of fame
Includes: Davey Lopes, Shawn Green, Tim Salmon

No. 16: Rick Monday (Los Angeles Dodgers via Santa Monica High)
Sports and patriotism
Includes: Marcel Dionne, Gary Beban, Pau Gasol, Frank Gifford, Hideo Nomo, Rodney Peete

No. 17: Shohei Ohtani (Los Angeles Dodgers and Los Angeles Angels)
Sports and international currency
Includes: Bill Kilmer, Jari Kurri, Carl Erskine, Phillip Rivers

No. 18: Roman Gabriel (Los Angeles Rams)
Sports and the Filipino-American influencer
Includes: Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Bill Russell, Dave Taylor

No. 19: Will Ferrell (Los Angeles Dodgers, Los Angeles Angels via University High of Irvine and USC)
Sports and performance artist
Includes: Jim Gilliam, Jim Fox, Butch Goring

20 to 29:

No. 20: Darryl Henley (Los Angeles Rams and UCLA football via Damien High)
Sports and a fall from grace
Includes: Luc Robitaille, Don Sutton, Mike Garrett

No. 21: Sean Burroughs and Jeff Burroughs (Long Beach Little League, Long Beach Wilson High)
Sports and Little League legends
Includes: Eddie Meador, Michael Cooper, Wally Joyner, LenDale White, Jim Hardy

No. 22: Ila Borders (Whittier Christian High, Whittier College baseball)
Sports and gender gamesmanship
Includes: Clayton Kershaw, Elgin Baylor, Bo Jackson

No. 23: Ryan Elmquist (Caltech basketball)
Sports and Revenge of the Nerds
Includes: Kirk Gibson, LeBron James, Eric Karros, Dustin Brown, David Beckham

No. 24: Kobe Bryant (Los Angeles Lakers)
Sports and mural memorializing
Includes: Walter Alston, Marion Morrison, Freeman McNeil

No. 25: Tommy John (Los Angeles Dodgers and California Angels) and Dr. Frank Jobe (and Steve Busby)
Sports and the scalpel
Includes: Gail Goodrich, Norm Van Brocklin, Rafer Johnson, Jim Abbott

No. 26: Gene Autry (Los Angeles/California Angels)
Sports and the Hollywood owner
Includes: Jon Arnett, Willie Brown

No. 27: Willie Crawford (Los Angeles Dodgers via Fremont High)
Sports and the bonus baby
Includes: Mike Trout, Vlad Guerrero, Matt Kemp

No. 28: Jack Robinson (UCLA football via Pasadena High)
Sports the seeds of social justice
Includes: Anthony Davis, Albie Pearson

No. 29: Eric Dickerson (Los Angeles Rams)
Sports and the business impasse
Includes: Rod Carew, Adrian Beltre

30 to 39:

No. 30: Bo Kimble (USC and Loyola Marymount University basketball, Los Angeles Clippers; with No. 44 Hank Gathers and LMU coach Paul Westhead
Sports and the heartbreak of the fast break
Includes: Nolan Ryan, Maury Wills, Rogie Vachon

No. 31: Cheryl Miller and Reggie Miller (USC and UCLA basketball via Riverside Poly High)
Sports and the sibling rivalry
Includes: Mike Piazza, Ed O’Bannon, Dean Chance

No. 32:
Includes: Magic Johnson, Sandy Koufax, O.J. Simpson, Bill Walton, Marcus Allen, Jonathan Quick, Josh Hamilton, C.R. Roberts, Blake Griffin

No. 33: Lew Alcindor / Kareem Abdul Jabbar (UCLA, Los Angeles Lakers)
Sports and the misunderstood intellect
Includes: Marcus Allen, Willie Naulls, Marty McSorley, Ollie Matson

No. 34: Fernando Valenzuela (Los Angeles Dodgers)
Sports and the Latino cultural icon
Includes: Shaquile O’Neal, Bo Jackson, Paul Cameron, Nick Adenhart

No. 35: Petros Papadakis (USC football/sports-talk host)
Sports and sports talking
Includes: Sidney Wicks, Jean Sebestian Giguere, Bob Welch, Cody Bellinger, Ron Settles

No. 36: Roy Gleason (Los Angeles Dodges via Garden Grove High)
Sports and Vietnam
Includes: Bo Belinsky, Jered Weaver, Jeff Weaver, Don Newcombe

No. 37: Tom Seaver with Bill Bordley (USC baseball)
Sports and the loophole
Includes: Donnie Moore, Lester Hayes, Ron Artest/Metta World Peace

No. 38: Leon Burns (Long Beach State football) and Brian Banks (Long Beach Poly High)
Sports and making up for lost time
Includes: Eric Gagne, Clyde Wright, Burr Baldwin

No. 39: Jim Hill (San Diego Chargers)
Sports and keeping the faith
Includes: Sam Cunningham, Willie Strode, Hugh McElhenny

40 to 49:

No. 40: Billy Bean (Los Angeles Dodgers via Loyola Marymount and Santa Ana High)
Sports and the ABCs of LBGTQ+
Includes: Elroy Hirsch, Frank Tanana, Bartolo Colon

No. 41: Glenn Davis (Los Angeles Rams via Bonita High)
Sports and Heisman lore
Includes: Eldon Campbell, Jerry Reuss

No. 42: Tom Selleck (USC basketball via Grant High and LA Valley College)
Sports and the stand-in
Includes: James Worthy, Ronnie Lott, Ricky Bell, Walt Hazzard, Don MacLean, Ed Ratelff, Kevin Love, Connie Hawkins, CR Roberts

No. 43: Troy Polamalu (USC football via Santa Ana)
Sports and the Polynesian influence
Includes: Raul Mondesi, Mychal Thompson

No. 44: Hank Gathers (USC basketball, Loyola Marymount University basketball; with No. 30 Bo Kimble and LMU coach Paul Westhead)
Sports and the fast break heartbreak
Includes: Jerry West, Reggie Jackson, Gaston Green, Cynthia Cooper

No. 45: Tyler Scaggs (Los Angeles Angels via Santa Monica High)
Sports and the opioid epidemic
Includes: A.C. Green, Pedro Martinez

No. 46: Juan Marichal (Los Angeles Dodgers) with John Roseboro
Sports and the act of forgiveness
Includes: Burt Hooten, Todd Christensen

No. 47: Trevor Bauer (UCLA and Los Angeles Dodgers via Hart High School of Newhall)
Sports and the temperamental perfectionist
Includes: Andy Messersmith, LeRoy Irvin

No. 48: Milt Smith (UCLA football via Santa Ana High)
Sports and World War II
Includes: Les Richter, Ramon Martinez

No. 49: Marvcus Patton (UCLA football via Leuzinger High) and his mother, Barbara
Sports and a mother-son gridiron journey
Includes: Charlie Hough, Tom Candiotti, Bill Bordley, Carson Schwesinger

50 to 59:

No. 50: Jimmie Reese (PCL Los Angeles Angels; California Angels coach via San Pedro High)
Sports and anti-Semitism
Includes: Mookie Betts

No. 51: Randy Johnson (USC baseball)
Sports and the photo finish
Includes: Lauren Betts, Randy Cross

No. 52: Keith Wilkes/Jamaal Wilkes (Los Angeles Lakers and Clippers, UCLA via Santa Barbara High)
Sports and Cornbread
Includes: Marv Goux, Happy Hairston, Burr Baldwin

No. 53: Don Drysdale (Los Angeles Dodgers via Van Nuys High)
Sports and the Love Bug
Includes: Keith Erickson, Jim Youngblood, Lynn Shackelford, Rod Martin

No. 54: Marques Johnson (UCLA basketball via Crenshaw High)
Sports and the Crenshaw legacy
Includes: Horace Grant, Kenny Fields, Larry Farmer

No. 55: Gavin Smith (UCLA basketball)
Sports and the missing person
Includes: Orel Hershiser, Russell Martin, Albert Pujols, Junior Seau, Matt Millen, Kiki Vandeweghe, Tom Fears, Gary Cunningham, Chris Claiborn, Keith Rivers, Willie McGinnest

No. 56: Rick Dempsey (Los Angeles Dodgers via Crespi High of Encino)
Sports and the “Mutt and Jeff Bandits” saga
Includes: Gary Zimmerman, Hong-Chih Kuo, Doug Smith, Jarrod Washburn

No. 57: Fr. Tommy Green (Citrus College football via Glendora High)
Sports and witnessing a miracle
Includes: Frankie Rodriguez, Steve Howe, Jerry Robinson

No. 58: Cal State Northridge
Sports and the college try
Includes: Isiah Robertson, Rey Maualuga

No. 59: Barbie
Sports and the SI Swimsuit model citizen
Includes: Evan Phillips, Collin Ashton, Lou Ferrigno Jr.

60 to 69:

No. 60: Andrew Toles (Los Angeles Dodgers)
Sports and mental health security
Includes: Clay Matthews Jr., Dennis Harrah, Hardiman Cureton

No. 61: Jake Olson (USC football via Orange Lutheran High)
Sports and seeing the game with new eyes
Includes: Chan Ho Park, Rich Saul

No. 62: Brent Boyd (UCLA football via Whittier)
Sports and the CTE origin story
Includes: Bill Bain, Al Krueger

No. 63: Jim Brown (UCLA football via Loyola High)
Sports and the ’54 Band of Brothers
Includes: Booker Brown, Joe Carollo

No. 64: Terry Donahue (UCLA football via Notre Dame High of Sherman Oaks)
Sports and the gutty little overachiever
Includes: Damon Bame, Jack Reynolds, Roy Foster

No. 65: Max Montoya (UCLA football, Los Angeles Raiders via La Puente High and Mt. SAC)
Sports and heaving heart
Includes: Tom Mack

No. 66: Yasiel Puig (Los Angeles Dodgers)
Sports and asylum seeker
Includes: Bruce Matthews

No. 67: Vin Scully (Los Angeles Dodgers)
Sports and the Soundtrack
Includes: Les Richter

No. 68: Mike McKeever (USC football via Mt. Carmel High) with twin brother No. 86 Marlin McKeever
Sports and the twin terrors
Includes: Keith Van Horn

No. 69: Chase De Leo (Anaheim Ducks)
Sports and a pro hockey dream
Includes: Sebastian Joseph-Day, Al Barry

70 to 79:

No. 70: Al Cowlings (Los Angeles Rams via USC)
Sports and the uber-Uber driver
Includes: Marv Marinovich, Joe Maddon, Harry Smith

No. 71: John Ferraro (USC football via Bell High)
Sports and local politics
Includes: Tony Boselli, Brad Budde, Randy Meadows

No. 72: Bailey (Los Angeles Kings)
Sports and the mascot
Includes: Miguel Rojas, Don Mosebar

No. 73: Dennis Rodman (Los Angeles Lakers)
Sports and the cry for help
Includes: Charlie Cowan, Tyler Toffoli, Ron Yary, George Stanich

No. 74: Merlin Olsen (Los Angeles Rams); with No. 75 Deacon Jones, No. 76 Rosey Grier and No. 85 Lamar Lundy
Sports and the Fearsome Foursome
Includes: Ron Mix, Kenley Jansen

No. 75: Deacon Jones (Los Angeles Rams); with No. 74 Merlin Olsen, No. 76 Rosey Grier and No. 85 Lamar Lundy
Sports and the Fearsome Foursome
Includes: Howie Long

No. 76: Rosey Grier (Los Angeles Rams); with No. 74 Merlin Olsen, No. 75 Deacon Jones and No. 85 Lamar Lundy
Sports and the Fearsome Foursome

No. 77: Anthony Munoz (USC football via Chaffey High in Ontario)
Sports and the rosy comeback
Includes: Ron Yary, Lyle Alzado, Jeff Carder, Alex Whitworth, John McCarthy

No. 78: Jackie Slater (Los Angeles Rams)
Sports and Ramming It
Includes: George Achica, Art Shell

No. 79: Forest Whitaker (Palisades High, Cal Poly Pomona)
Sports and Fast Times to an Oscar
Includes: Jonathan Ogden, Gary Jeter, Coy Bacon, Bob Golic

80 to 89:

No. 80: Donn Moomaw (UCLA football)
Sports and the All-American preacher
Includes: Henry Ellard, Johnnie Morton, Bob Klein, Duane Bickett

No. 81: Dick “Night Train” Lane (Los Angeles Rams)
Sports and the NFL walk-on
Includes: Ron Jessie, Don Hardy

No. 82: Greg Hopkins (Los Angeles Avengers)
Sports and the Indoor Ironman
Includes: Mike Sherrard, Red Phillips

No. 83: Cormac Carney (UCLA football):
Sports and casting judgment
Includes: Willie Anderson, Ted Hendricks, Richard Wood

No. 84: Jack Snow (Los Angeles Rams via St. Anthony High of Long Beach) and his son, J.T. Snow
Sports and “Snow Days”
Includes: Jerry Robinson, Paul Maguire

No. 85: Lamar Lundy (Los Angeles Rams); with No. 74 Merlin Olsen, No. 75 Deacon Jones and No. 76 Rosey Grier
Sports and the Fearsome Foursome
Includes: Jack Youngblood

No. 86: Marlin McKeever (USC football via Mt. Carmel High); with twin brother No. 68 Mike McKeever
Sports and the twin terrors

No. 87: The LA Bowl, hosted by Gronk
Sports and college bowling
Includes: Danny Farmer, Ralph Haywood, Billy Truax

No. 88: Billy Don Jackson (UCLA football)
Sports and the “functional illiterate”
Includes: Tim Rossovich, Phil Nevin, Preston Dennard, Owen Hanson

No. 89: Fred Dryer (Los Angeles Rams via Lawndale High)
Sports and the DE/TV PI
Includes: Charles Young, Jack Bighead, Ron Brown, Bobby Jenks

90 to 99:

No. 90: Andrei Voinea (California School for the Deaf – Riverside)
Sports and the superpower of sign language
Includes: Larry Brooks, Mike Wise

No. 91: Dino Ebel (Los Angeles Dodgers, Los Angeles Angels)
Sports and the Barstow traffic cop
Includes: Kevin Greene, Sergei Fedorov

No. 92: Rich Dimler (USC football)
Sports and life’s party crasher
Includes: Rick Tocchet, Don Gibson

No. 93: Ndamukong Suh (Los Angeles Rams)
Sports and Super Bowl rental
Includes: Greg Townsend

No. 94: Don Yi (Los Angeles Dodgers interpreter)
Sports and breaking language barriers
Includes: Kenechi Udeze, Terry Crews, Paul Bergmann

No. 95: Jamir Miller (UCLA football)
Sports and finding maturity
Includes: Roger McQueen

No. 96: Darrell Russell (USC football)
Sports and naivety
Includes: Neil Hope, Lawrence Jackson

No. 97: Joe Beimel (Los Angeles Dodgers)
Sports and the bobblehead
Includes: Jeremy Roenick, Joey Bosa

No. 98: Parnelli Jones and J.C. Agajanian (motor sports via San Pedro)
Sports and the iconic race car
Includes: Tom Harmon

No. 99: Charlie Sheen/Carlos Esteves (Santa Monica High)
Sports and the Wild Thing
Includes: Wayne Gretzky, Aaron Donald, Manny Ramirez, Hyun Jin Ryu