All Ball Sports: Dave McCoy’s journey from El Segundo to Mountain King
by Paul Teetor For more than 60 years, Dave McCoy was Mammoth Mountain and Mammoth Mountain was Dave McCoy. You couldn’t mention one without the other. When McCoy died just short of his 105th birthday, back in February 2020, everybody mourning his passing celebrated his connection to Northern California, its magnificent mountains and its influential skiing culture. Dave and Roma McCoy in their early years at Mammoth Mountain Ski area. Photos courtesy of Robin Morning Especially the LA-area skiers – and later snowboarders — who happily made the 300-mile trek from SoCal to access some of the finest trails in the world. But few of the LA-area skiers knew of McCoy’s roots in El Segundo, known to locals as Mayberry by the Sea because of its small-town values and resemblance to the mythical rural town where the Andy Griffith Show was located. El Segundo is well known in sports circles for producing big league baseball players including Hall of Famer George Brett, his brother Ken Brett who had a 12-year big league career, and Scott McGregor, who was a dominant pitcher back in the 1970s. And of course, it is the home of the 2023 Little League World Series champions. Far less well known is…
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