No. 19: Louis Lappe

This is the latest post for an ongoing media project — SoCal Sports History 101: The Prime Numbers from 00 to 99 that Uniformly, Uniquely and Unapologetically Reveal The Narrative of Our Region’s Athletic Heritage.  Pick a number and highlight an athlete — person, place or thing — most obviously connected to it by fame and fortune, someone who isn’t so obvious, and then take a deeper dive into the most interesting story tied to it. It’s a combination of star power, achievement, longevity, notoriety, and, above all, what makes that athlete so Southern California. Quirkiness and notoriety factor in. And it should open itself to more discussion and debate — which is what sports is best at doing.

The most obvious choices for No. 19:
= Jim Gilliam: Los Angeles Dodgers
= Butch Goring: Los Angeles Kings
= Fred Lynn: California Angels
= Jim Fox: Los Angeles Kings

The not-so-obvious choices for No. 19:
= Mike Gillespie: USC baseball
= Dennis Dummit, UCLA football
= Larry Robinson: Los Angeles Kings

The most interesting story for No. 19:
Louis Lapp: El Segundo Little League pitcher/first baseman (2023)
Southern California map pinpoints:
El Segundo

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Louis Lappe lived in a time during Southern California sports where a kid could crack open a can of Liquid Death as way not to just re-hydrate but also look cool doing it.

But nothing was more cool to his friends than what he did at Williamsport, Pennsylvania, during a summer vacation that included winning baseball games.

Lappe already stood head-and-shoulders above most of his El Segundo All Star teammates in the Summer of ’23. At 6-foot-1 and 153 pounds, the 12-year-old could make level eye contact with the team’s 53-year-old volunteer manager, Danny Boehle.

In one magical moment, No. 19 appeared to be even higher — maybe 19 feet or more — in the air.

A Little League legend was born on a Sunday afternoon before a national TV crowd, many of which crammed into local restaurants in Southern California to see what might happen.

Lappe got a victory lap around the bases, punctuating a game-winning homer with a lofty leap before landing on home plate at Howard J. Lamade Stadium amidst his delirious teammates. The 6-5 win was dramatically set up an inning earlier by a game-tying grand-slam gut punch delivered by the kids from Willemstad, Curacao, a team from a small island off the coast of Venezuela home to just 150,000 residents. Instead, Curacao endured its second straight title loss and third in the last four tournaments.

Lappe’s home run was the first and only Willemstad allowed in its six World Series games.

“I was just looking for a good pitch,” Lappe told ABC after hitting his Series-leading fifth home run in seven games. “My mentality was just get the next guy up and if we kept doing that, we would have won either way, but I’ll take the homer.

“When that pitch came, even before I hit it, I was like, ‘Oh!’ I was so excited and happy. When I got around to home plate, I made sure to touch it.”

Lappe, whose teammates nicknamed him “The Natural,” was been the focal point of El Segundo’s 6-1 win just 24 hours earlier over a team from Needville, Texas to take the U.S. championship. It was the fourth day in a row they won an elimination game after Needville sent them into the consolation bracket earlier in the week (where Lappe also homered in the first inning). In the U.S. title game, Lappe swatted a three-run homer in the fifth inning, following a two-run single in the third inning. He also pitched, striking out 10 in 5 1/3 innings.

Lappe almost wasn’t on the team for his final year of Little League eligibility. He played for a few years, but didn’t play as an 11-year-old, deciding instead to focus on soccer, basketball and another travel baseball team.

He asked Boehle if he would be OK to rejoin the Little League team. Boehle said he was fully on board – enough to want to coach the team himself.

The background

El Segundo won 20 out of 22 games in five local, state and regional tournaments that summer. Its other loss was to the all-star team from the Sherman Oaks, 4-3, in the opening game of the championship series of the Southern California State Tournament. El Segundo won the rematch, 3-2, later that day.

Add to that, several players were afflicted with a stomach virus when the World Series began Aug. 17 and had to sit out. Or was it just a case of the nerves? That didn’t seem to be part of their vocabulary.

Boehle, tearing up before the TV cameras moments after Lappe’s final homer, and hugged by his son, Quinn, also on the team, added: “Now I can get emotional. We finally made it. That was our mission, to do it with my son and all these boys. … What we did may never happen again in the history of El Segundo.”

He then watched his players scoop up dirt from the infield into paper cups to take home as a souvenir.

Lappe posted 10 hits (five of them homers) and scored eight runs with 10 RBIs in El Segundo’s seven World Series games. Teammate Brody Brooks, 3-for-3 with a homer in the U.S. title game, had 13 hits, 13 runs scored and five RBIs. Brooks, the last of four El Segundo pitchers in the International Title game, was credited with the victory, pitching a hit-less sixth inning, striking out two. The rest of the squad: Lennon Salazar, Finley Green, Lucas Keldorf, Colby Lee, Max Baker, Declan McRoberts, Ollie Parks, Crew O’Connor and Jaxon Kalish. All with the cool baseball names, right?

“These guys know what they’re doing and they believe in the coaches,” Boehle said. “We believe in them. It’s just the attitude and the personalities they’ve chosen over the years that has kept us so connected.”

Lappe later told a reporter he “knew the ball was gone before he hit it.” Really?

“It’s hard to describe because it’s so unique feeling like you’re left standing on a cloud or something.”

A crowd of El Segundo residents scattered about on blankets and lawn chairs changing “Go ‘Gundo” at George Brett Field watched the game on a large-screen TV some 2,600 miles away and immediately set up a victory parade plans.

The El Segundo players and coaches were not only celebrated with a city-wide parade, but visits to Dodger Stadium and a USC football game as the kids were returning to school and some normalcy.

It was noted in a recap of all that happened in the local South Bay magazine: “After weeks of celebrations, many of the players appeared to be a bit beleaguered with yet another parade, but Louis stood with a grin from ear to ear and waved to the exuberant fans who lined the streets of El Segundo.”

El Segundo translates to “The Second” in English. It’s a reference to the second Chevron oil refinery landing in that area.

As Normar Garciaparra said during the time team joined the Dodgers’ SportsNet LA pregame show: “It’s not El Segundo any more. It’s El Primero. They’re not second to anyone. Time to change the name.”

Even Daily Variety was taking claim of the kids as “Hollywood’s hometown Little League team.”

The context

Since El Segundo Little League launched in 1954, no team from that baseball-rich city has had a team go that far in Little League. There are all sorts of high school CIF titles won by manager John Stephenson at El Segundo High, and plenty of big-league careers were planted there.

The Little League field is named after the Kansas City Royals’ Hall of Fame third baseman, the youngest of four Brett brothers who played at El Segundo High and the second, after his brother Kemer, to make it to the big leagues.

In a 2025 piece by USA Today marking the top five moments in Little League history since its 1947 conception, Lappe’s title-winning homer ranks No. 3.

Sean Burroughs came in No. 1.

The Long Beach Little League teams of 1992 and ’93 were led by Sean Burroughs.

Long Beach was the U.S. champion in ’92, but lost to Zamboanga City in the Philippines in the overall championship. However, that squad was found to have over-age and non-eligible players, forced to forfeit the title.

But the next year, the Long Beach team somehow pushed its way back through all the qualifying, won the US title again, and this time defeated a squad from Panama in the International final, 3-2. Burroughs threw no-hitters in both his team’s pool play opener against Ohio on August 23 and in the U.S. Championship game on August 26. He did not pitch in the LLWS title game, but his team came through nonetheless.

They are one of only three teams to repeat as world champs. Burroughs, the son of former American League MVP Jeff Burroughs, had a 10-year run in the Major Leagues a decade later and even tried to make a comeback with the Dodgers’ farm system some 25 years after that moment in Williamsport.

Huntington Beach (2011, a 2-1 win over Japan) and Granada Hills (1963, a 2-1 win over Stratford, Conn.) are the other two Southern California teams to claim the title since the tournament began in 1947. Irvine (1987), Northridge (1994), South Mission Viejo (1997) and Thousand Oaks (2004) also made it to the title game before bowing out. Teams from Chula Vista, near San Diego, won it all in 2009 and lost the 2013 international title game.

Little League in Southern California is rich in history. The Wrigley Little League in L.A. sits on the site of the old Wrigley Field, just East of the Coliseum. Many who play on that dirt and grass don’t even know of its connection to that time and place.

Long before Mone Davis, Southern California Little League history has the story of Victoria Brucker, No. 20 for the West Team, the first girl on an American squad in the World Series, representing San Pedro’s Eastview Little League in the summer of 1989. Their cleanup hitter as a 5-foot, 3-inch, 137-pound first baseman. Getting all the way to the U.S. semifinal game. Girls had only been playing Little League for 15 years prior to that moment. She is now a swimming coach in Hawaii.

As for famous athletes who have a connection to Little League in Southern California:

= Hall of Fame pitcher Jim Palmer, who grew up playing in the Beverly Hills American Little League. He moved to Whittier from New York when his widowed mother went to operate a dress shop. They moved to Beverly Hills in 1956. “We first lived at 145 S. Almont, then after my mother got remarried, my stepfather bought a house in Coldwater Canyon,” Palmer said. “But I kept going to Horace Mann (Elementary School) because I wanted to stay in school with my friends. They’d come to games driven by their chauffeurs, while I came on my bike after my paper route.”

= Dusty Baker, who managed the Houston Astros to the 2022 World Series, grew up playing Little League in Riverside. It led to a 19-year MLB career (12 with the Dodgers, and the 1981 World Series) and 20 years as a manager. In 2007, he was added to the Little League Hall of Excellence.

= NFL quarterback Matt Cassel was part of the ’94 “Earthquake Kids” from Northridge that won the U.S. bracket and lost to Venezuela 4-3 in the final. During his football career at USC, where he was a backup to Carson Palmer and Matt Leinart, Cassel was drafted by the Oakland Athletics in 2004, but he signed with the New England Patroits as a seventh-round draft pick in ’05 to back up Tom Brady. With Kansas City, Cassel made the Pro Bowl and retired after the 2018 season.

= NFL quarterback Brian Sipe, who would have a league MVP season in Cleveland and retire as the franchise leader in passing yards and TDs, was part of the Northern Little League in El Cajon/La Mesa team that ran through the Little League World Series, winning a pair of games in extra innings before defeating Texas in the final to claim the championship.

= Actors Kevin Costner and Tom Selleck were added to the Little League Hall of Excellence. Coster, inducted in 2000, was recognized for his participation in Saticoy Little League in Ventura — where he once struck out 16 batters in a game and threw a couple no-hitters. Selleck, inducted in 1991, was an all-star pitcher with the Pioneer Little League of Sherman Oaks.

= Current MLB players with a connection to their local Little League includes Gerrit Cole (Western Little League in Tustin), Giancarlo Stanton (Tujuga Little League), Lucas Giolito (Santa Monica Little League), Nolan Arenado and Matt Chapman (Lake Forest Little League), Jack Flaherty (Southern Little League in Sherman Oaks), Christian Yelich (Thousand Oaks Little League), Nick Pratto (on the Huntington Beach Little League team that went to the Little League World Series in 2009), Hagen Danner (Ocean View Little League of Huntington Beach that went to the 2011 Little League World Series), Max Fried, Gabe Kapler and Torey Lovullo (Encino Little League), Pete Crow-Armstrong (Southern Little League in Sherman Oaks), Noah Davis (Huntington Valley Little League in Huntington Beach), Freddie Freeman (Long Beach Little League), Austin Barnes (Magnolia Little League in Riverside), Jeff McNeil (Goleta Valley South Little League in Santa Barbara), Michael Lorenzen (East Anaheim Little League), Kyle Higashioka (Seaview Little League and Walnut Creek Little League in Huntington Beach), Lars Nootbaar (El Segundo Little League) and Stephen Strasburg (Santee American Little League)

The legacy

Lappe has a biographic page on the PerfectGame.com website listing him at 6-foot-1 and 165 pounds, noting he will be in the Class of 2029. His FB Velo (speed of his fastball) was last registered at 75 mph in May of 2023, with a bar chart about how it has progressed from 55 mph in March of 2021.

In March of 2025, Lappe’s father confirmed Louis would be attending Harvard-Westlake School in Studio City. Louis was last reported to be 6-foot-3 and has been pitching and playing third base.

Meanwhile, the El Segundo Little League website continues to tally up the national coverage it has received since that summer of fun.

Who else wore N0. 19 in SoCal sports history?
Make a case for:

Jim Gilliam, Los Angeles Dodgers infielder (1958 to 1966), Los Angeles Dodgers coach (1964 to 1978):

Starting with the Baltimore Elite Giants of the Negro Leagues as a teenager, then with the Brooklyn franchise in 1953 as the NL Rookie of the Year just five seasons after Jackie Robinson’s debut, Gilliam became a steady presence in the organization. As a player until 1966. As a coach until his death before the 1978 World Series — which led to the unique decision to retire his number.

Whenever you go to Dodger Stadium, you always see the numbers retired that even the most casual fans can identify — Koufax, Fernando and Lasorda. And Robinson. But there’s always that No. 19 that might get a second look and spark some research.

Gilliam, a four-time All-Star, is the only Dodgers player other than Koufax to earn four World Series rings (’55, ’59, ’63, ’65) with the franchise over his 14 seasons. A new book by Steve Dimore called “Jim Gilliam: The Forgotten Dodger” released in early 2025 and will shed far more light on his life and times. There is always the thought with Dodgers fans that Gilliam could have not only been the Dodgers’ first Black manager but the first in MLB history if the openings fell for him. It would have been most appropriate considering his connection with Robinson.

And, there’s always the bias that goes with the fact Gilliam took the time to pose with me during a Dodgers’ Camera Day promotion, which I’m guessing was sometime in the mid-1970s.

Jim Fox, Los Angeles Kings forward (1980-81 to 1987-88, also wore No. 4 in 1989 -90):

Fox’s 10-year career saw him score 30 goals three times and retire in the Top 10 list of most all franchise offensive categories. He has become as well known as a TV game analyst since his retirement, including a 27-year run with Bob Miller that had the team’s 2012 and 2014 Stanley Cup title runs.

Larry Robinson, Los Angeles Kings defenseman (1989-90 to 1991-92):

Why did Jim Fox give up his No. 19 for his final NHL season? Because the team acquired this eventual Hockey Hall of Fame defenseman from Montreal after his 17 seasons and six Stanley Cup wins. Spent three years in L.A. and even opened a Play It Again Sports shop in Torrance.

Butch Goring, Los Angeles Kings center (1969-70 to 1979-80):

Before Jim Fox had No. 19, it belonged to this blond-haired Lady Byng Trophy winner who remains seventh all time in franchise goals scored, ninth in assists and eighth in points.

Hal Bedsole, USC football receiver (1961 to 1963):

“Prince Hal” out of Reseda High landed in the USC Athletic Hall of Fame, the National Football Foundation Hall of Fame and was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame just prior to his death. He helped lead the Trojans to a 1962 national title, the first for John McKay, and was a two-time first-team All AAWU and the first Trojan to have 200 receiving yards in a single game.

Dennis Dummit, UCLA football quarterback (1969 to 1970):

After the Long Beach Wilson high grad spent two years at Long Beach City College, Dummit set 14 records with the Bruins in 21 Pac-8 games, was the top passer in the program’s history when he finished, and was the two-time winner of the Red Sanders Award as the team’s MVP. At the time of his UCLA Athletic Hall of Fame induction in 2004, he was ranked as the No. 7 Bruin all-time passer with 289 completions out of 552 passes for 4356 yards and 29 TDs. From Dan Jenkins’ profile on Dummit for Sports Illustrated in late October of 1969 focused on the influx of JC transfers into the major college system: “First of all, nobody wanted Dummit when he got out of high school in Long Beach. Everybody wanted the guy who played ahead of him, a thrower named Bob Gritch (sic). UCLA signed Gritch (sic). But so did the Baltimore Orioles, and they paid him money. Gritch (sic) still went to UCLA and played baseball in the Texas League instead of football in Westwood. Dummit, meanwhile, was talked to by Utah, Navy and Long Beach State and offered nothing. So he went to the community college to prove himself as a player, hoping to be offered a chance at the big time when he was a junior. A good-looking, yellow-blond 6-footer, who wears a sweatband around his head to make his headgear fit, Dennis developed in the Jaycees as a passer, a cool, accurate thrower with what (UCLA coach Tom) Prothro calls “the best anticipation” of any passer he’s coached. Last December, Prothro knew he wanted Dummit—needed Dummit—and he got him. Dennis enrolled in the spring quarter and had the spring drills to try and learn UCLA’s multiple, highly-sophisticated offense, which features just about everything from pro spreads to triple options, with no doubt the widest spacing of any line in the country. “We had to find a quarterback, and I went to the Jaycees to get one,” said Prothro. “I’m happy I found one with a 3.6 grade average as well as an arm.” And then Dummit led UCLA to a 6-0 start and a No. 6 national ranking before a loss to USC in the final ended the Bruins at 8-1-1. SI’s Jenkins covered that USC 14-12 win over UCLA and wrote on Dec. 1: “Across the way the USC students had raised a banner that said THE WILD BUNCH TAKES NO——! The Wild Bunch is the Trojan defensive unit, and all season it hasn’t let anybody’s offense push it around, including UCLA’s. All afternoon and evening the Wild Bunch bounced Dennis Dummit around the Coliseum floor like a double dribble, smothering him for loss after loss and forcing him to throw the football upward, downward and sideways. This was the main reason USC eased into the Rose Bowl last week for a record fourth straight year. In this unwitting era of scoring, the defense finally had its day.”

The 1970 season saw the Bruins finish 6-5, and Dummit threw for 14 TDs and 19 interceptions to go with 2,392 yards. A National Football Foundation Scholar Athlete, Dummit was passed over in the NFL draft, signed as a free agent with the Los Angeles Rams and played in a few exhibition games then went to the CFL for Ottawa and Edmonton and then for the Hawaiians in the World Football League.

Fred Lynn, California Angels outfielder (1982 to 1984):

The El Monte High star was a third-round pick by the New York Yankees in 1970 of the January phase, but Lynn decided to play wide receiver for USC’s football team instead, part of a Trojans’ roster that won the 1972 Rose Bowl. An All-American on the baseball team led to Boston drafting him in 1973, which led to his AL Rookie of the Year and MVP Award in ’75. Coming to the Angels in an ’81 pre-season trade that saw him swapped for Joe Rudi and Frank Tanana, Lynn exited Boston and made three more straight AL All-Star appearances (giving him nine in a row), highlighted by hitting a grand slam in the 1983 game at Comiskey Park in Chicago. With the Angels, Lynn initially wore No. 8 in 1981 because Bert Campaneris had the No. 19 that Lynn wore in Boston.

Marcedes Lewis, UCLA football tight end (2002 to 2006): UCLA Hall of Fame member and the only Bruin to win the Mackey Award as the nation’s top collegiate tight end.

Have you heard this story:

Lamar Willis, Compton College football receiver (2025):

In 2025, the Compton College football program was in danger, again, of being canceled for budget reasons, lack of victories and general disinterest. The community kept rallying to keep it alive. Enough so that it started supplying more players to fill the roster from past generations. Willis, who last played at Bellflower High and was coaching football as late as 2014, was 45 when he was recruited to play — joining his son, Josiah, wearing No. 20 and playing defensive back (out of Cerritos High). Willis’ stats say he played in two games during Compton’s 0-10 season (the last two games were losses by forfeit). This is the same Lamar Willis who ran for mayor of Compton in 2021. Among Willis’ teammates on this Compton team was 50-year-old linebacker Orson Villalobos (his bio is on the No. 50 post).

Mario Danello, USC football kicker (2003 to 2006):

As a sophomore in ’05 and a junior in ’06, the San Pedro native and walk-on to the program made 127 extra points and converted 26 of 28 field goals. Danelo earned a scholarship in the fall of 2005 and won the starting job, and benefitted from the high-powered Trojans offense by setting NCAA, Pac-10 and USC records for PATs (83) and PAT attempts (86). The son of NFL kicker Joe Danello was an All-L.A. City first team linebacker as a senior in 2002. Six days after USC’s win over Michigan in the 2007 Rose Bowl — he connected on two 26-yard field goals and two of four PAT tries — Mario Danello was found dead at the bottom of White Point Cliff in ear the Point Fermin Lighthouse in San Pedro. Two thousand people attended Danelo’s funeral at Mary Star of the Sea Catholic church. For the ’07 season, USC players wore a No. 19 sticker on their helmets. In the 2007 season opener, coach Pete Carroll and Athletic Director Mike Garrett presented a jersey to Danelo’s parents, and after USC’s first touchdown against Idaho, the team lined up for a PAT try without a kicker and took a five-yard delay of game penalty as a tribute.

Mike Gillsepie, USC baseball coach (1987 to 2006):

One of only two to play for and coach an NCAA championship baseball team, after playing for the 1961 Trojans title squad under Rod Dedeaux, Gillsepie is a Hawthorne High grad who coached USC to five Pac-10 titles and had four College World Series appearances, a finalist in 1995 and the winner in 1998. He won 763 games at USC and coached 42 All-Americans. Also UC Irvine’s head baseball coach from 2008 to 2018. He was inducted into the American Baseball Coaches Association Hall of Fame in 2010 and the USC Athletics Hall of Fame in 2018

Bob Boyd, USC basketball center (1950-51 to 1951-52):

The 6-foot-6 center was more famous as the Trojans head basketball coach winning 215 games from 1966 to 1979. But only one NCAA Tournament, because the only the conference champions would advance. And is was almost always UCLA instead.

Curtis Pride, Anaheim/Los Angeles Angels outfielder (2004 to 2006):

He was born deaf. Audiologists found him to be 95 percent deaf in both ears as a result of his mother having rubella – German measles – while she was pregnant. He would play professionally for 23 years, including parts of 11 seasons at the major-league level. A left-handed-hitting outfielder who primarily served in a reserve role, he had 199 big-league base hits, 50 coming off the bench, and 29 as a pinch-hitter. In 1995, Pride was presented the Tony Conigliaro Award to honor a player who has overcome “an obstacle and adversity through the attributes of spirit, determination, and courage” that were trademarks of Conigliaro. In 1997, the Detroit Tigers released him, and the Boston Red Sox (Conigliaro’s former team) picked him up, but gave him only two at-bats. The first resulted in a pinch-hit home run, at Fenway Park. Why Pride didn’t get more opportunities at the highest level – and why he jumped from organization to organization – is somewhat of a mystery. Asked if his deafness played a role, Pride wouldn’t speculate as to whether he was discriminated against. All he’d say was, “Teams appreciated my ability on the field, and more importantly, I was a very good team player.” This, from his Society of American Baseball Research biography.

Lance Rentzel, Los Angeles Rams receiver (1972 to 1974):

No. 19 turned out to be his NFL comeback jersey — the number he wore earlier in his career with Dallas and Minnesota, and then returned for one last year with the Rams after serving a 10-month suspension by the NFL for conduct detrimental to the league. Rentzel was convicted of marijuana possession, but he was already on probation for an indecent exposure charge before a 10-year-old girl that went back to 1970 when he was with the Cowboys. Then it was revealed that in 1966, he was charge of indecent exposure and disorderly conduct. In ’71, Rentzel, given No. 13 and trying to reboot his image, led the Rams in receptions with 38 even as his value as a player had started a steep decline from his previous six NFL seasons. The Cowboys tried to cut their losses, sending him to the Rams as he was undergoing psychiatric help. The subsequent scandal caused his wife, actress and singer Joey Heatherton, to divorce him. While with the Rams, he was the subject of a long 1972 feature story in Sport magazine — “The Story Behind His Fight For Respect” –which led to his autobiography, “When All The Laughter Died in Sorrow.”

Will Ferrell, Los Angeles Angels outfielder; Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher (2015):

Baseball-Reference.com has official documentation for how the 47-year-old started and ended his day on March 12, 2015 — wearing 10 different uniforms and playing 10 different positions in the Cactus League exhibition action.

That included appearances as an Angels center fielder and Dodgers pitcher. He wore No. 19 for every team (except wearing No. 20 for San Diego at the end). It is likely he’s the only person to wear No. 19 for the Dodgers since it was retired for Gilliam.

The former USC Sports Information major who became one of the celebrity owners of the Major League Soccer’s LAFC pulled off the feat recorded as an HBO documentary that became a cancer fund-raising exercise.

As the Angels played the Cubs in Tempe, Ferrell subbed in for center fielder Mike Trout in the third inning and actually held the Cubs’ Wellington Castillo to a single on a ball lined to him. Several teams and a helicopter ride later, he caught up with the Dodgers in Peoria as they were playing San Diego. Dodgers manager Don Mattingly called on Ferrell as a relief pitcher in the seventh inning. The Padres’ Rico Noel tried to bunt on him, but Ferrell fielded it and threw him out. Ferrell came out, swapped his jersey for Padres’ garb, and played right field against the Dodgers for an inning, and retired. Topps also made baseball cards of him to prove it happened.

And …

We also have:

Jeff Dankworth, UCLA football quarterback (1974 to 1976)
Alex Hannum, USC basketball forward (1943, 1946 to 1947)
Dennis Dummit, UCLA football quarterback (1969 to 1970)
Remy Hamilton, Los Angeles Avengers kicker (2002 to 2007))
Bert Campaneris, California Angels shortstop (1979 to 1981)
Dante Bichette, California Angels outfielder (1988 to 1990)
Bill Munson, Los Angeles Rams quarterback (1964 to 1967)
Lance Rentzel, Los Angeles Rams receiver (1971 to 1974)
Sean Avery, Los Angeles Kings defenseman (2002 to 2007)
Note: Chargers receiver Lance Alworth did not play for Los Angeles in 1960 but joined the team a year later en route to a Hall of Fame career in San Diego.

Anyone else worth nominating?