LOL! re: Rod Dedeaux All baseball coaches have connections, but no one...and I mean NOBODY was more connected than Rod Dedeaux. From Tommy Lasorda to the Pope; from Ronald Reagan to Jerry Brown; from Frank Sinatra to all the ships at sea; all that guy had to do was wave his magic wand and mountains moved for him. I wonder what he needed the dollar for? One of my old high school pals was a basketball player named Mark Latimer who's father was a professor of dentistry at USC. His college roommate at USC was Bill Buckner, and according to Buckner......Dedeaux was God...