Tony Capozzola had some baseball advice for Tommy Lasorda during what started as a friendly lunch. Lasorda didn’t agree with it — and didn’t want to hear it. The lunch went downhill from there.
The pandemic in Manhattan Beach was met with an uneasy mixture of community cooperation and outright defiance in a year in which the city’s conflicts would mirror the nation’s.
Just 16 days apart, the Dodgers and then the Lakers each won world championships, which were a long time coming. It was the Dodgers’ first World Series title in 32 years, and the Lakers’ first NBA title in 10 years.