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

Updated 4.15.26: Scroll to the end of this post and see the running list of people, places and things so far assigned to numbers 00 to 99.

What if we told you the history of Southern California sports in the Greater Los Angeles area can be explained in an eclectic collection of biographies, stories and essays that can be loosely categorized by attaching them to the 101 different numbers that can be worn on the front, back, or elsewhere on an athlete’s uniform?

And as a way to calendar this, focus on the last 101 years.

For example: Take a jersey number like 32. Over the course of SoCal sports history, it resonates with athlete who are known by one name. Koufax, Magic, O.J., Walton, Marcus, Quickie.

Quick — which one of them has the most compelling backstory.

In a way, it can answer the question: Who wore and honored this number best? That leads to all sorts of discussions over a few beers that bring on their own amusement and entertainment value. Ultimately, it’s a personal preference. Likely, a connection of nostalgia to an athlete you first became drawn to as a kid.

But who are we kidding? There are so many rich stories of athletes who wore No. 32, who might be the one that has a journey that’s more uniquely L.A.?

For geographical reference, we start by defining SoCal territory below the 35°45′ latitude line, which does less to cut off our friends in San Diego but more to unite the counties of Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, Ventura, San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara as kissing cousins. All are freeway connective with their own transportation hubs involving land, air and sea for fluid traversing.

In theory and typography, SoCal can stretch as far to the counties of San Diego, Imperial, and Kern — about 24 million residents over a 56,000 square-mile patch that has its own Thomas Guide.

We pick attitude over latitude for this project.

Los Angeles by the numbers is itself 114 distinct neighborhoods spread across 470 square miles — 10 times the size of San Francisco. There are about 220 languages spoken. Diversity is a defining characteristic among an often misunderstood gaggle of scattershot suburbs, all in search of a cohesive landmass.

Sports has helped shape those boundaries, as well as defined communities and neighborhoods.

Los Angeles can have a warped mythologized existence, blending fact, fiction and Hollywood. Desert, beach and snow-capped mountains. Land slides from drought, earthquakes from seismic underpinnings and floods from unexpected downpours.

We know traffic jams, yoga sessions and plastic surgery. A $22 influencer-endorsed protein smoothie and a bargain set of Converse All-Stars picked up at outlet mall.

We weather this storm as we can.

Modified over the years, and attributed most notably to Dorothy Park, Aldous Huxley or H.L. Menken, with a tug on Snoop Dogg’s collar, the greater SoCal region as a source of sports and entertainment comes from fertile soil, often in sorely need of watering, before it takes root. It is far from watered down.

“Los Angeles is a city built upon amnesia and denial,” Tom Curren wrote for the Los Angeles Times in 2025 as he helped to introduce a multi-faceted project aimed at predicting the future success, or assumed failure by outside forces, of this star-crossed region. “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 fits sportingly into this ambiguous narrative. Those who follow sports here accept the dispassionate folklore label, smirking off butt of a geographical punchline for those who feel they know and live their sports lives more intimately and loudly.

Honestly, we don’t care for comparisons. Our history speaks for itself.

Sports shaped the region, from the 1932 Summer Olympics, to the 1984 Summer Olympics, to the 2028 Summer Olympics, and the region gave the world a glimpse of our evolution.

We had a baseball World Series championship team jammed into the football arena that would host the first Super Bowl. We have had Forums that were fabulous, and do-it-yourself home repair-sponsoring mini stadiums in the suburbs that suited each tenant as well as could be until it was time to relocate.

“In an area larger than Rhode Island and Delaware combined, there are 88 municipalities, 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.

Again, is it 88 or 114 or do we split the difference over what’s now offered on the menu at Tommy’s hamburger stand.

Expand your idea of the boundaries we want to cover here. And figure in all its numerology, by zip codes, area codes or iPhone QR codes.

When Los Angeles proper saw a need to expand on its initial 213 area code and create a Rolodex of overlays that included 310, 323, 626 and 562, plus acknowledge that the 818 was the San Fernando Valley, the 714 colored Orange County and Catalina Island could pick from a buffet of choices, we show how it generated population data that was combined to create the L.A.-O.C. region from a TV ratings prism.

Orange County has 34 cities of its own amidst nearly 1,000 square miles, from Seal Beach to San Clemente, up to Yorba Linda and all surrounding the pulse of Disneyland — the later, not actually a city, but a place of mind in Anaheim. More codes for the phone numbers were needed again.

The Inland Empire reins in Riverside County, where the 909/951 takes up more than 7,000 square miles — roughly the size of New Jersey — and unites 28 more cities. Most notably are Riverside, along with Palm Springs and the rest of the High Desert. Conjoined with San Bernardino County, there are another 24 cities stretching from Big Bear and Loma Linda.

Southern California’s 805, adding in Santa Barbara, Ventura and San Luis Obispo to the grid, feel so close and so far at the same time depending on the 101 traffic patterns.

Think of Southern California as something much more than disposable entertainment or superficial sunshine. Sports have stitched this mapped fabric together. It has also been an important entry point in explaining our history.

Universities have courses costing thousands per unit to explain how sports connect to culture, sports is part of fashion, sports reinforces social justice, sports and business runs the economy. Monumental moments of the nation’s history often have a sports foundation, and a grove of that is Southern California connected.

Southern California is a creative space where forces of nature come together to talk numbers — contracts, streaming episodes, tax incentives, gross revenues or what’s less oppressive if you give it to us in Fahrenheit versus Celsius.

If the numbers don’t add up, things don’t happen. If the numbers attached to jerseys, tanktops, uniforms, socks and blazers subtract from the bottom line of winning and connecting generational followings, they can be abandoned for the next group to step in and try.

In a communication structure where letters might outrank numbers, we appreciate how the alphabet provides integrity amidst bizarre spelling rules. But amidst the zigging and zaggings of hyperbole and analogy, numerals don’t have to sit by and just provide ways of measuring, quantifying and amplifying.

Numbers have a language all their own. A love language, to be specific.

A world is arranged by numbers define time and space, paramount in organizational thought after the Greeks began to create symbols to capture an evolving vocabulary.

Numbers feed mythology, heroics and imagination. They explain the magic seared into our psyche. Numbers can be a romantic partner in life.

As the human heart beats 60 to 100 times a minute, it pounds for what numbers bring — devotion, connection and meaning. They uncover secrets and open windows to self discovery.

The Bible has its own Book of Numbers for historical context as much as a hope that lineage matters. Who begat whom.

So why does any of this matter in Southern California-speak?

Casey Wasserman, the point person for the 2028 Summer Games in Los Angeles, said during a press conference in Paris during the ’24 Games: “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.”

So are sports, uniformly and messy in how they are the common denominator.

Starting at double-zero and zero, from one to 99, our challenge is finding the stories connected to the numbers that explain our stories.

At one end of this linear experience, take No. 00. Benoit Benjamin presents a fitting amalgamation of abject failure — of a franchise, and an athlete and how, in our attempt to recycle, an example of how the Lakers once took the Clippers’ trash and tried to turn it into something useful.

At the far end, there’s No. 99, a symbol of trying to living the Hollywood dream.

First flinch at sizing up that number is easy — it’s Wayne Gretzky or Aaron Donald or Manny Ramirez. But consider Carlos Esteves/Charlie Sheen, son of an actor who so much wanted to be a baseball start, a pitcher at Santa Monica High under his birth name. It wasn’t until he wore No. 99 in a a wildly popular baseball movie that maybe he found his own Hollywood identity, and it gave permission for other MLB players to co-opt it as some kind of psychological advantage on the mound, staring down a hitter.

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.”

The point is that one can declare someone to be a great hitter based on their presence. But once you say someone was a .340 lifetime hitter, it enhances the argument and provides a baseline.

The seeds for this project were planted in an exercise I did for the Los Angeles Daily News in 2007. We did a deep dive into the rosters of Southern California’s teams of note, some going back to the 1940s — further, if necessary. The NFL’s Rams and Chargers, who co-exist in the same major Inglewood Stadium. The MLB’s Dodgers and Angels, who once shared Dodger Stadium but couldn’t never agree on what to call it. The NBA’s Lakers and Clippers, who individually made their debuts at 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 but when they play each other it’s called the Freeway Faceoff. The MLS’ Galaxy and LAFC define a population caught up in their El Traffico matchups. We also have NWSL’s Angel City FC and the WNBA’s Sparks.

On the college level, the history goes back further: UCLA and USC on one tier, with Pepperdine and Loyola Marymount able to stand their educational foundation with Cal State Northridge, Cal State Dominguez Hills, Long Beach State, UC Irvine, Cal State Fullerton, UC Riverside … Cal Poly San Luis Obispo as well as Cal State Pomona. … Don’t overlook Whittier College, which created the legend of Richard Nixon.

From on extreme to another, franchises came and went, without taking into account how the NFL’s Rams or AFL’s Chargers were able to circle back. There was a time when Los Angeles’ NFL team were the one and only Raiders (1982-94), overlapped by the USFL Los Angeles Express (1982 to 1985), and 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 was 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).

Less major but never minor were the Pacific Coast League baseball’s Los Angeles Angels and Hollywood Stars. The Arena Football League’s L.A. Avengers and L.A. Kiss. The XFL’s Los Angeles Xtreme.

And, why not add all that was Roller Derby at the various venues. Motor sports as well has its numerical heroes in SoCal lore. So do 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 of the past, but an explanation of the present, I learned from someone auditing a class at Cal Lutheran University. Sports history always seems like current events because we need context when something happens, an El Camino College writing instructor told a class I was part of once.

And it’s kind of getting old to watch outsiders try to make fun of Los Angeles for its lack of culture, context and community.

“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 the Hollywood High halo
Includes: Pee Wee Reese, James Harden, Jordan Farmar, Dorian Thompson-Robinson, Dot Richardson

No. 2: Tommy Lasorda (Los Angeles Dodgers)
Sports and managing a belief system
Includes: Kawhi Leonard, Morley Drury, 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 fanciful filly
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 politico
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” trope
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 number
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‘ prep jock
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 the feminize fame
Includes: Davey Lopes, Shawn Green, Tim Salmon

No. 16: Rick Monday (Los Angeles Dodgers via Santa Monica High)
Sports and the patriotic flag grab
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: Louis Lappe (El Segundo Little League)
Sports and Little League legends
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: Eddie Meador (Los Angeles Rams) and Michael Cooper (Los Angeles Lakers)
Sports and the worthiness of Fame
Includes: 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)
Sports and medical miracle
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 a social justice journey
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 (USC baseball)
Sports and a Bridge game too far
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 understanding 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 heartbreak of the fast break
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 the World War II vet
Includes: Les Richter, Ramon Martinez

No. 49: Marvcus Patton (UCLA football via Leuzinger High) and his mother, Barbara
Sports and a mother-son 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 local 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 Ironman
Includes: Mike Sherrard, Red Phillips

No. 83: Cormac Carney (UCLA football):
Sports and judgment days
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