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Legendary USC baseball coach Rod Dedeaux died today at the age of 91, The Associated Press reports.
As a Stanford baseball fan, I have to say that USC's program under Dedeaux is the standard I've always measured ours against.
More reflections, surely, to come in further news reports.
Update: The Griddle has more.
Of course, one of the 33 who was NOT coached by Dedeaux was, well, Rod Dedeaux.
Texas, meanwhile, has had 92 big leaguers.
Despite being passed by two Texas coaches on the all-time win list, Dedeaux will likely always be the winningest college coach named "Raoul."
Dedeaux's two career major league games came on consecutive days. They were the second-to-last and third-to-last games of the 1935 season. The Dodgers won the first game 12-2 behind George Earnshaw and the second game 2-0 behind Van Lingle Mungo.
Dedeaux went 1-for-4 overall with an RBI single and one error at shortstop.
He was the council's main gadfly, and a longtime foe of using tax increment financing to fund the expansion of downtown LA. When the NFL finally figures out that LA taxpayers won't pay a dime for a new stadium for one of their fatcat owners, a flower will bloom on Bernardi's grave.
Shav Glick has the LA Times obit.
BTW, it look like Dedeaux's second game with the Dodgers was actually the final game of the 1935 season, not second-to-last as I posted above.
Nick Tremark, RF
Johnny Cooney, CF
Frenchy Bordagaray, LF
Johnny McCarthy, 1B
Francis Skaff, 3B
Baldy Sherlock, 2B
Raoul Martial Dedeaux, SS
Whitey Ock, C (his only MLB game)
Rattlesnake Baker, P
The amazing thing was that somebody cared who finished in fifth.
I don't see why they would care a lot about finishing fifth, though.
Eric, I hope Ned can trade Odalis and move Rattlesnake into the rotation.
Stan from Tacoma
Also in the farm system at one point was catcher Steve Sogge, the QB for the '67 (OJ) National Champs, and I seem to recall that Mike Garrett may have signed a minor league contract when his NFL/AFL career was winding down.
Apparently Gardner was one of those athletes who was absolutely dominant at an early age, but reached a plateau in the low minors and didn't progress farther despite the weight of expectations.
Sogge is probably most famous for being taken out of the 1967 USC-UCLA football game in favor of Toby Page, who called the audible that made O.J. Simpson a household name.
Somehow you just can't see Valentine running McKay's 'student body right" and beating out guys like Clarence Davis and Sam Cunningham for a starting job.
250 would have been just about every football playing school in the U.S. across divisions.
And Penn doesn't offer scholarships because none of the Ivies do.
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