Rod Dedeaux

Rod Dedeaux

Shortstop / College Baseball Coach
Born: February 17, 1914 New Orleans , United StatesUnited States
Died on: January 5, 2006 Glendale , United StatesUnited States
Suggested: Right	Threw: Right
Debut in Major League Baseball
With the Brooklyn Dodgers September 28, 1935
Last MLB assignment
With the Brooklyn Dodgers September 29, 1935
MLB statistics (until end of career)
Batting average	.250
Home runs	0
Runs Batted In	1
Teams
Brooklyn Dodgers ( 1935 )

Raoul Martial "Rod" Dedeaux (born February 17, 1914 in New Orleans , Louisiana , † January 5, 2006 in Glendale , California ) was an American baseball manager . Among other things, he coached the American baseball team for the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo , Japan and 1984 in Los Angeles , USA .

Dedeaux played three years for the USC Trojans of the University of Southern California and completed two games for the Brooklyn Dodgers as a shortstop . He had to give up his career as a baseball player due to a back pain. From 1950 he began to coach the baseball players of the University of Southern California after he had assisted since 1942. He won a total of 11 NCAA baseball championships and coached the later MLB players Mark McGwire , Tom Seaver , Randy Johnson , Fred Lynn , Ron Fairly and Roy Smalley , among others . He ended his career as the most successful college baseball coach ever with 1,332 wins. He was inducted into the College Baseball Hall of Fame in 2006 and was named Coach of the Century by Collegiate Baseball magazine in 1999.

He died of a stroke after complications .

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SURNAME	Dedeaux, Rod
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Dedeaux, Rod Raoul Martial (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American baseball coach
DATE OF BIRTH	February 17, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH	New Orleans , Louisiana
DATE OF DEATH	January 5, 2006
Place of death	Glendale , California