The 1977 Los Angeles Dodgers season had Tommy Lasorda replace longtime manager Walter Alston as Manager of the team. The Dodgers won the National League West by 10 games and defeated the Philadelphia Phillies in four games in the NLCS, then lost to the New York Yankees in the World Series.
Lasorda was the manager of the Yankess after Alston
Alston was replace by Lasorda, so he was the mgr before Lasorda