ROD DEDEAUX signed Induction Day program, coached RANDY JOHNSON, MARK McGWIRE et

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Rod Dedeaux
Background: I attended in-person the Shrine of the Eternals' induction ceremonies in Pasadena, Calif. on July 16, 2000.  It was held inside a large conference room at the Pasadena Central Library. Bill "Spaceman" Lee came to the event, wearing his minor league jersey.  The woman umpire Pam Postema was also there. She was one of three inducted, along with Moe Berg.
A special guest at the event was Bill Lee's coach at USC, Rod Dedeaux.
They won a College World Series together in 1968.
I walked up to Dedeaux after the ceremonies, and he signed my program, with the Honus Wagner stamp cancellation on the cover.  Dedeaux was the baseball coach at USC for 45-years. His one-time bat boy was youngster Sparky Anderson.  He was also a favorite person of manager Tom Lasorda. Dozens of future big leaguers played for Dedeaux at USC, including Bill Lee, Fred Lynn, Randy Johnson, Mark McGwire and Tom Seaver. Dedeaux ended up being inducted himself, into the Shrine of Eternals in 2005.
Mint signature in solid blue pen. He adds under his name, "USC." EX to Nr Mt condition program (very clean throughout without any markings or noticeable defects). Size in typical closed position = 5.5 x 8.5." 12 pages (including heavy-duty front-back covers).
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*I've been a collector since 1970. I learned about collecting autographs through columns in old trade magazines, such as The Trader Speaks and Newsreel. I've been selling autographed items on eBay for over fifteen years. Unless otherwise noted, each was personally obtained for my own collection or inventory. This was mostly via the mail route from 1973-95.
*14-year-old exhibitor at the third and last annual Brea Show in 1971. (This SoCal get-together was a forerunner of the Nat'l Sports Collectors Con.) Member of the Universal Autograph Collectors Club (UACC) and Society for American Baseball Research (SABR). Contributor to SABR's ongoing Baseball Biography Project. Authored the 259-page book Baseball's Golden Half-Century 1910-1959 (published in 2007). Great nephew and sole researcher of Paul Martin, who illustrated twenty magazine covers for Collier's, played against B.Tilden and in three US Opens. I've been a subscriber and occasional advertiser to the major hobby publications, since the early 1970s. My full-page ads have appeared in Autograph Collector (later called Autograph Magazine). This includes the following older issues: Jun '90 p 37; Sept '90 p 25; Jan '91 p 35; Aug '91 p 19; Apr '93 p 7; Oct '94 p 32; Oct '96 p 87 etc.
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