I hadn't heard of this until today, but the great USC baseball coach, Rod Dedeaux, died on Jan 5th.
Legendary former longtime USC baseball head coach Raoul "Rod" Dedeaux, who led the Trojans to a record 11 national championships, coached nearly 60 future major leaguers and was an ambassador for baseball's international popularity, died Thursday (Jan. 5) in Glendale, Calif., of complications from a stroke that he had suffered on Dec. 2. He was 91.