We already anticipate there'll be more debate over who's more deserving of No. 32, but flip the digits around, and there's equal argument over who has ownership to No. 23. We'll take the L.A. Dodgers' all-time leader in career homers over a mercinary grouch who hobbled in for three seasons, hit the most dramatic homer in team history, and then left.
Karros, a San Diego native and UCLA star, won the NL Rookie of the Year in '92 when he hit 20 home runs and drove in 88 runs. In '95, he finished fifth in the NL MVP voting when he hit 32 home runs and drove in 105 and was the Silver Slugger winner for first basemen. In '99, he hit .304 with 34 home runs and 112 RBI. Before he was shipped off to the Cubs after the 2002 season, Karros amassed an L.A. team record of 270 home runs. One of the game's best players to have never appeared in an All-Star game, Karros ended up with more than 1,000 career RBIs.
"I'm the type of player, you go watch me for a week, you might come away saying, `What is this guy doing in the big leagues?'" Karros admitted in a 2000 story in Baseball Digest. "But at the end of the year, my numbers will be there."
The story notes that Karros weathered enormous franchise turmoil since the Fox takeover in March 1998. Earlier, Karros survived spring training challenges staged by former manager Tom Lasorda with the likes of Todd Benzinger, Darryl Strawberry and Kal Daniels. But he wound up playing more games (1,183) than any Dodger of the 1990s.
"It means that I've been here, I've been consistent, I've been productive," Karros said. "And if you'd asked people over various times in my career who did they think would be the Los Angeles home run leader, I probably would not have been at the top of everybody's list."

First runner-up:
==Kirk Gibson, Dodgers (1988-'90)
Voted the top moment in L.A. sports history by the Los Angeles Sports Council, there's Gibson in his limp-off home run that won Game 1 of the 1988 World Series against Oakland and propelled the Dodgers to their last championship. "In a year that has been so improbable... the impossible has happened!" said Vin Scully on the NBC broadcast. And here's a link to Joe Buck's "I don't believe what I just saw" call on radio. That was the only at-bat in the series for the '88 NL MVP, who during that season had a modest 25 homers and 76 RBI, with a .290 batting average. That was his first year after the Dodgers signed him as a free agent from Detroit, where he became an '84 World Series hero as well. Gibson played just 71 games in '89 and 89 games in '90 before moving onto Kansas City.
If you still get goosebumps from that one moment, then he's your No. 23.

Second runner-up:
==David Beckham, Galaxy (2007- )
Has anyone actually seen him wear it in a game? Or is it so overwhelming at the local AYSO field that it's just assumed that he's permeated the city without really doing anything. Yet.

Third runner-up:
==Harold Miner, USC basketball ('89-'92)
"Baby Jordan," out of Inglewood High, was Sports Illustrated's pick as college basketball player of the year, over Shaquille O'Neal and Alonzo Mourning. And that was just for his junior season, when he led the Trojans to a No. 2 seed in the '92 tournament (they were upset by Georgia Tech in the second round). In 200 games at USC, he scored 1,801 points. Miner went to the NBA -- Miami's pick No. 12 overall -- and won the '93 and '95 Dunk Contest. Injuiries curtailed his promising career after four seasons. "I always felt the worst thing to happen to Harold was the 'Baby Jordan' tag," said USC coach George Raveling. Here's his '93 Dunk Contest video from YouTube:

Other No. 23s:
==Claude Osteen, Dodgers ('65-'73)
==Jimmy Wynn, Dodgers ('74-'75)
==Derek Lowe, Dodgers ('05- )
==Cedric Ceballos, Lakers ('94-'97)
==Stu Lantz, Lakers ('75-'76)
==Chris Chambliss, UCLA baseball
==Donnie Edwards, UCLA football ('92-'95)
==Kenny Washington, UCLA basketball ('64-'66)
==Mitchell Butler, UCLA basketball ('89-'93)
==Jackie Joyner, UCLA women’s basketball
==Anthony Davis, Rams (’78)

Sports Illustrated's choice for the all-time No. 23: Michael Jordan, over LeBron James, Gibson and Pete Maravich (college).

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