Rod Dedeaux
{{short description|American baseball coach (1914-2006)}}
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| birth_place = New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.
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| death_place = Glendale, California, U.S.
| alma_mater = USC
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| coach_years1 = 1942–1986
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| overall_record = 1,332–571–11
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- 11× College World Series Champion (1948, 1958, 1961, 1963, 1968, 1970–1974, 1978)
- 29× PCC/AAWUPac-8/Pac-10 Regular season Champion (1942, 1946–1949, 1951–1961, 1963, 1964, 1966, 1968, 1970–1975, 1977, 1978)
- 14× PCC/AAWUPac-8/Pac-10 Tournament champion (1948, 1949, 1951, 1955, 1958, 1959, 1970–1975, 1977, 1978)
| awards = *6× Coach of the Year (CBCA)
- CBCA Hall of Fame (1970)
- ABCA Hall of Fame (1970)
- Coach of the Century (Collegiate Baseball Newspaper)
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Raoul Martial "Rod" Dedeaux (February 17, 1914 – January 5, 2006) was an American college baseball coach who compiled what is widely recognized as among the greatest records of any coach in the sport's amateur history.{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=C-k0Ylqf4cQC&q=%22rod+dedeaux%22&pg=PA8 | title=One Hit Wonders: Baseball Stories | publisher=iUniverse | author=Rose, George | year=2004 | pages=8–9 | isbn=9780595318070}}{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TQtTF0CAq7AC&q=%22rod+dedeaux%22&pg=PA200 | title=The Baseball Fan's Bucket List: 162 Things You Must Do, See, Get, and Experience Before You Die | publisher=Running Press |author1=Santelli, Robert |author2=Santelli, Jenna | year=2010 | pages=200–01 | isbn=9780762440313}}{{cite news | url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=_apVAAAAIBAJ&pg=4759%2C5454150 |title=Dedeaux' Dynasty |newspaper=Eugene Register-Guard |location=Oregon |last=Murray |first=Jim |author-link=Jim Murray (sportswriter) |date=February 24, 1973 |page=3B}}{{cite web | url=http://www.usctrojans.com/sports/m-basebl/spec-rel/100407aaa.html | title=Construction Begins On The Rod Dedeaux Research For Baseball Institute | publisher=Usctrojans.com | date=October 4, 2007 | access-date=July 8, 2013}}{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-jan-06-me-dedeaux6-story.html |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |agency=(obituary) |last=Glick |first=Shav |title=Rod Dedeaux, 91; led USC teams to 10 national baseball championships |date=January 6, 2006 |access-date=October 21, 2015}}
Dedeaux was the head baseball coach at the University of Southern California (USC) in Los Angeles for 45 seasons, and retired at age 72 in 1986.{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=4GgPAAAAIBAJ&pg=2207%2C3890663 |newspaper=The Bulletin |location=Bend, Oregon |agency=UPI |title=Trojans' Rod Dedeaux resigns after 44 years |date=June 4, 1986 |page=D2 }} His teams won 11 national titles (College World Series), including a record five straight (1970–1974),{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=GeQRAAAAIBAJ&pg=4908%2C5838934 |newspaper=Spokesman-Review |location=Spokane, Washington |agency=Associated Press |title=Troy wins; Miami foe in finals |date=June 15, 1974 |page=12}}{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=VahYAAAAIBAJ&pg=4790%2C68727 |newspaper=Spokane Daily Chronicle |location=Washington |agency=Associated Press |title=USC dynasty stays intact |date=June 17, 1974 |page=14 }} and 28 conference championships. Dedeaux was named Coach of the Year six times by the Collegiate Baseball Coaches Association and was inducted into its Hall of Fame in 1970. He was named "Coach of the Century" by Collegiate Baseball magazine {{cite web | url=http://losangeles.dodgers.mlb.com/news/press_releases/press_release.jsp?ymd=20060119&content_id=1298323&vkey=pr_la&fext=.jsp&c_id=la | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304063053/http://losangeles.dodgers.mlb.com/news/press_releases/press_release.jsp?ymd=20060119&content_id=1298323&vkey=pr_la&fext=.jsp&c_id=la | url-status=dead | archive-date=March 4, 2016 | title=Dodgers to celebrate Rod Dedeaux Night on April 5 | work=MLB.com | date=January 19, 2006 | access-date=July 8, 2013}} and was one of ten initial inductees to the College Baseball Hall of Fame.{{cite web | url=http://www.cstv.com/sports/m-basebl/stories/042606ack.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923211717/http://www.cstv.com/sports/m-basebl/stories/042606ack.html | url-status=dead | archive-date=September 23, 2015 | title=Rod Dedeaux Elected To College Baseball Hall Of Fame | publisher=CSTV.com | date=April 26, 2006 | access-date=June 21, 2013}}
Dedeaux also coached the United States national team at two different editions of the Summer Olympic Games: Tokyo 1964 and Los Angeles 1984.
Early life
Born in New Orleans, Louisiana, Dedeaux moved to Los Angeles and graduated from Hollywood High School in 1931.{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=b_ZLAAAAIBAJ&pg=4076%2C1455839|newspaper=Spokesman-Review |location=Spokane, Washington |agency=Associated Press |title=Dedeaux strives for excellence |date=May 5, 1978 |page=35 }} He played baseball at the University of Southern California for three seasons. Dedeaux then played professional baseball briefly in 1935, appearing in two games as a shortstop for the Brooklyn Dodgers late in the season. The following year while playing for Dayton in the Mid-Atlantic League, he cracked a vertebra while swinging in cold weather, ending his season. Dedeaux played parts of two minor league seasons in 1938 and 1939 before retiring from professional baseball. He then turned to coaching in the semi-pro and amateur ranks.[https://www.baseball-reference.com/d/dedearo01.shtml Rod Dedeaux Statistics – Baseball-Reference.com]
Career
Dedeaux invested $500 to start a trucking firm, Dart (Dedeaux Automotive Repair and Transit) Enterprises, which he built into a successful regional business.{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NuA1AQAAIAAJ&q=Dedeaux|volume=12 | title=The New York Times & Arno Press | year=1981 | pages=472}} When his college coach, Sam Barry, entered the U.S. Navy during World War II,{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=NbBWAAAAIBAJ&pg=5577%2C6634718 |newspaper=Eugene Register-Guard |location=Oregon |title=Sam Barry given new Navy post |date= June 1, 1943|page=8 }} he recommended Dedeaux to take over the team in {{Baseball year|1942}} for the war's duration. Upon Barry's return in 1946, they served as co-coaches with Dedeaux running the team each year until Barry finished the basketball season.{{cite web | url=http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article_leftfield.jsp?ymd=20050505&content_id=1039899&vkey=leftfield&fext=.jsp | title=Dedeaux honored by Louisville Slugger | work=MLB.com | date=May 5, 2005 | access-date=July 31, 2013 | author=Miller, Doug}}{{cite web | url=http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/magazine/features/si50/states/nebraska/story/ | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040618215407/http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/magazine/features/si50/states/nebraska/story/ | url-status=dead | archive-date=June 18, 2004 | title=Crown Jewel | work=Sports Illustrated.com | date=June 14, 2004 | access-date=July 31, 2013 | author=Habib, Daniel G.}} USC won its first national title in 1948, over Yale, captained by first baseman George H. W. Bush. The finals were held at Hyames Field in Kalamazoo, Michigan, settled by a 9–2 win in the third and deciding game.{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=NFspAAAAIBAJ&pg=6098%2C5093036 |newspaper=Spokesman-Review |location=Spokane, Washington |agency=Associated Press |title=Yale Elis even Trojan series |date=June 27, 1948 |page=1, sports }}{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=hNpXAAAAIBAJ&pg=4122%2C5445381 |newspaper=Spokane Daily Chronicle |location=Washington|title=Southern Cal takes college ball title |date=June 28, 1948 |page=15 }}
Following Barry's death in September 1950,{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ThkzAAAAIBAJ&pg=2883%2C613703 |newspaper=Lodi News-Sentinel |location=California |agency=United Press |title=Sam Barry dies, returned to LA |date=September 25, 1950 |page=6 }} Dedeaux became the sole coach and proceeded to build on his early success to establish the strongest program in collegiate baseball. Prior to his retirement in June {{Baseball year|1986}}, Dedeaux's teams won ten additional College World Series titles in Omaha, including five straight (1970–74) and six in seven years. No other coach had won more than three titles until 1997.
At USC, Dedeaux coached dozens of future major leaguers, including Ron Fairly, Don Buford, Tom Seaver, Dave Kingman, Roy Smalley, Fred Lynn, Steve Kemp, Mark McGwire, and Randy Johnson.{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=m6RVAAAAIBAJ&pg=7090%2C6627600 |newspaper=Eugene Register-Guard |location=Oregon |last=Murray |first=Jim |author-link=Jim Murray (sportswriter) |title=Baseball's gold mine |date=March 28, 1976 |page=2B }} Throughout his USC career, he accepted a nominal salary of just $1 per year since his trucking business supplied him with a substantial income. He turned down numerous offers of major league coaching positions, including invitations from Los Angeles Dodgers manager Tommy Lasorda to join his staff, always rejecting them due to his preference for the college game and his desire to remain close to his family.
He retired as the winningest coach in college baseball history with a record of 1,332–571–11 ({{winning percentage|1332|571|11}}),{{cite news | url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=TgVTAAAAIBAJ&pg=6015%2C1088642
| title=Dedeaux retires after 45 years | agency=UPI | newspaper=The Courier |location=Prescott, Arizona | date=June 4, 1986 |page=12A}} and for the rest of his life remained an honored annual presence at the College World Series in Omaha. At the 1999 edition, the 50th played in Omaha, he was given a key to the city by the mayor and a one-minute standing ovation by the fans at Rosenblatt Stadium.{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=WCRUAAAAIBAJ&pg=5199%2C270053 |newspaper=Boca Raton News |location=Florida |agency=Associated Press |title=Rod Dedeaux honored in pre-game ceremony |date=June 18, 1999 |page=2B }} He was inducted into the American Baseball Coaches Association's Hall of Fame in 1970, and in 1999 was named the Coach of the Century by Collegiate Baseball magazine.
USC played its home games at Bovard Field through 1973,{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=6phjAAAAIBAJ&pg=6150%2C4984031 |newspaper=St. Petersburg Times |location=Florida |agency=Associated Press |title=Rod, the tree, recommissioned |date=June 5, 1973 |page=2C}} and Dedeaux became known as "The Houdini of Bovard" for the come-from-behind home-field wins by the Trojans. A new baseball field named Dedeaux Field opened in 1974, named in honor of the active head coach.{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=o61VAAAAIBAJ&pg=6172%2C3736087 |newspaper=Eugene Register-Guard |location=Oregon |title=Duck-Trojan game set back a day |last=Newnham |first=Blaine |date=May 14, 1974 |page=1D }}
=Olympics=
Dedeaux was the head coach of the United States baseball teams at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo and the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles,{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=wL8sAAAAIBAJ&pg=5934%2C427116 |newspaper=Wilmington Morning Star |location=North Carolina |agency=(New York Times) |last=Vecsey |first=George |author-link=George Vecsey |title=Baseball joins the parade |date=June 2, 1984 |page=4D}} where baseball was contested both times as a demonstration sport.{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=-2MeAAAAIBAJ&pg=6087%2C4328382 |newspaper=Times Daily |location=Florence, Alabama |agency=UPI |title=Dedeaux looks forward to Olympic baseball |date=July 16, 1984 |page=5B }} The 1964 team played one game as part of the Olympic program, defeating a Japanese amateur all-star team,{{cite web |url=https://theolympians.co/2015/10/01/baseball-at-the-1964-tokyo-games-hidden-in-plain-sight/ |title=Baseball at the 1964 Tokyo Games: Hidden in Plain Sight |first=Roy |last=Tomizawa |website=The Olympians |date=October 1, 2015 |accessdate=August 10, 2021}} while the 1984 team finished second in a field of eight teams, winning its first four games and losing to Japan in the final game of the tournament.[http://la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1984/1984v2.pdf Official Report]. Official Report of the Games of the XXIIIrd Olympiad Los Angeles, 1984.
=Films=
Dedeaux also served as the baseball coach and consultant for actors and ballplayers on the 1989 film Field of Dreams. While Dedeaux was critical of the "phoniness that was in baseball movies," an opinion which he acquired while working as an extra in the 1948 film The Babe Ruth Story, he accepted the task after reading the original novel Shoeless Joe and brought Buford along to help him coach the cast.{{cite web | url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=pIZjAAAAIBAJ&pg=3496,2315858&dq=rod-dedeaux+dart&hl=en | title='Shoeless' Managers know game | work=Telegraph Herald | date=July 13, 1988 | access-date=July 8, 2013 | author=Blocker, Sue}}"The 'Field of Dreams' Scrapbook", Field of Dreams DVD Phil Alden Robinson, who directed the film, said the following about Dedeaux:Audio commentary featuring Phil Alden Robinson and John Lindley, Field of Dreams DVD
All of the ballplayers in the movie were prepped for the film by Rod Dedeaux. He coached at USC for many years, and is a wonderful man, very full of life, energetic, very supportive, just really was very giving of himself and cheerful all the time, was a great spirit to have around. And one day, we were in between setups and I said, 'Hey, coach, what position did you play?' He said, 'I was a shortstop.' I said, 'Really, could you — were you good?' He got very quiet, and he said, 'I could field the ball.' I said, 'Could you hit?' He said, 'I could hit the ball.' And he was strangely quiet. And I said to him, 'Well, how come you never played in the majors?' And he said, 'I did.' I said, 'Really?' [Dedeaux said] 'Yes, in 1930-something.' I forget what year he said. He was the starting shortstop for the Brooklyn Dodgers. He played one game, broke his back and that was the end of his career.
And I just blanched. I said, 'My God, you're Doc Graham.' He said, 'That's right.' And I said, 'Do you ever think about, "gee, the career I might've had."' And he said, 'Every day.' He said it very quietly. It was very out of character for him and I was so touched by that. And I did look him up in the Baseball Encyclopedia: He did go, I think, 1-for-4 with an RBI. That was his lifetime stats. So having him be the man who trained all these fellows, including the kid who plays Doc Graham, was very meaningful to me and I know it was to him, too. It was great to have him around. I think about that often, about what that must have been like, to be good enough to start with a Major League team and for one unlucky moment, not be able to do — the rest of your life takes another turn. What he did with that is, he put all of that emotion — which could have gone into bitterness or regret — into being a phenomenal coach. He sent more people to the majors than, I think, anyboby else in college history. He's an amazing man.
Personal
Dedeaux was married to the former Helen L. Jones (1915–2007) for 66 years and they had four children.
Death and legacy
Dedeaux died in early {{baseball year|2006}} at age 91 at Glendale Adventist Medical Center in Glendale, of complications from a stroke five weeks earlier.{{cite web | url=http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/sports/college/baseball/2006-01-05-dedeaux_x.htm | title=Former USC baseball coach Rod Dedeaux dies at 91 | agency=Associated Press | work=USA Today | date=January 5, 2006 | access-date=June 21, 2013 | author=Peters, Ken}}{{cite web | url=https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F20713F935540C748CDDA80894DE404482 | title=Rod Dedeaux, 91; Led U.S.C. to 11 College World Series Titles | work=The New York Times | date=January 7, 2006 | access-date=June 21, 2013| author=Goldstein, Richard}} Six months later on July 4, he was one of ten in the first class inducted into the College Baseball Hall of Fame.{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=sXo0AAAAIBAJ&pg=6564%2C3440020 |newspaper=Tuscaloosa News |location=Alabama |agency=Associated Press |title=Winfield, Dedeaux among 10 elected to College Hall of Fame |date=April 27, 2006 |page=6C }}[https://www.espn.com/college-sports/news/story?id=2509494 "Winfield leads class of 10 into College Baseball Hall"] July 4, 2006. Associated Press. College Sports (ESPN.com). Retrieved June 21, 2013. Dedeaux was also inducted in the inaugural class of the Omaha College Baseball Hall of Fame in 2013, and a statue of him was unveiled at Dedeaux Field on the USC campus in 2014.
Dedeaux was inducted into the Baseball Reliquary's Shrine of the Eternals in 2005.[http://www.baseballreliquary.org/awards/shrine-of-the-eternals/shrine-of-the-eternals-electees "Shrine of the Eternals – Inductees"]. Baseball Reliquary. Retrieved 2019-08-14.
Dedeaux and his wife Helen are buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park, in Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles.
Head coaching record
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| endyear = 1986
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| season = 1942
| name = Southern California
| overall = 14–2
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| season = 1943
| name = Southern California
| overall = 14–2
| conference = 10–0
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| season = 1944
| name = Southern California
| overall = 12–4
| conference = 4–4
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| season = 1945
| name = Southern California
| overall = 7–8
| conference = 3–5
| confstanding = 3rd
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| championship = conference
| season = 1946
| name = Southern California
| overall = 15–2
| conference = 11–1
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| season = 1947
| name = Southern California
| overall = 16-6
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| season = 1948
| name = Southern California
| overall = 26-4
| conference = 13-2
| confstanding = 1st
| postseason = College World Series Champions
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| season = 1949
| name = Southern California
| overall = 23-6
| conference = 12-2
| confstanding = 1st
| postseason = College World Series
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| name = Southern California
| overall = 16-8
| conference = 8-7
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{{CBB yearly record entry
| championship = conference
| season = 1951
| name = Southern California
| overall = 22-10
| conference = 11-5
| confstanding = 1st
| postseason = College World Series
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| season = 1952
| name = Southern California
| overall = 18-9
| conference = 11–5
| confstanding = 1st
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| championship = conference
| season = 1953
| name = Southern California
| overall = 21-9
| conference = 10-6
| confstanding = T-1st
| postseason = District 8 Playoffs
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| championship = conference
| season = 1954
| name = Southern California
| overall = 14-7
| conference = 11–5
| confstanding = 1st
| postseason = District 8 Playoffs
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| championship = conference
| season = 1955
| name = Southern California
| overall = 23-5
| conference = 12-3
| confstanding = 1st
| postseason = College World Series
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| season = 1956
| name = Southern California
| overall = 21-5
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| season = 1957
| name = Southern California
| overall = 18-4
| conference = 12-4
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| championship = national
| season = 1958
| name = Southern California
| overall = 28-3
| conference = 14-2
| confstanding = 1st
| postseason = College World Series Champions
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| championship = conference
| season = 1959
| name = Southern California
| overall = 23-4-1
| conference = 14-2
| confstanding = 1st
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| championship = conference
| season = 1960
| name = Southern California
| overall = 32-11
| conference = 12-4
| confstanding = T-1st
| postseason = College World Series Runners-Up
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| championship = national
| season = 1961
| name = Southern California
| overall = 36-7
| conference = 12-4
| confstanding = 1st
| postseason = College World Series Champions
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| season = 1962
| name = Southern California
| overall = 29-10
| conference = 11–5
| confstanding = 2nd
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| season = 1963
| name = Southern California
| overall = 35-10
| conference = 10-6
| confstanding = 1st
| postseason = College World Series Champions
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| championship = conference
| season = 1964
| name = Southern California
| overall = 34-11
| conference = 17-3
| confstanding = 1st
| postseason = College World Series
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| season = 1965
| name = Southern California
| overall = 23-14
| conference = 9-11
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| championship = conference
| season = 1966
| name = Southern California
| overall = 42-9
| conference = 16-4
| confstanding = 1st
| postseason = College World Series
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| season = 1967
| name = Southern California
| overall = 30-11-2
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| season = 1968
| name = Southern California
| overall = 42-12-1
| conference = 16-2-1
| confstanding = 1st
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| season = 1969
| name = Southern California
| overall = 39-12-1
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| championship = national
| season = 1970
| name = Southern California
| overall = 45-13
| conference = 11–3
| confstanding = 1st
| postseason = College World Series Champions
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| championship = national
| season = 1971
| name = Southern California
| overall = 46-11
| conference = 17-0
| confstanding = 1st
| postseason = College World Series Champions
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| championship = national
| season = 1972
| name = Southern California
| overall = 47-13
| conference = 14-4
| confstanding = 1st
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| championship = national
| season = 1973
| name = Southern California
| overall = 51-11
| conference = 14-4
| confstanding = 1st
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| championship = national
| season = 1974
| name = Southern California
| overall = 50-20
| conference = 11–7
| confstanding = 1st
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| championship = conference
| season = 1975
| name = Southern California
| overall = 42-14-1
| conference = 12-4
| confstanding = 1st
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| season = 1976
| name = Southern California
| overall = 33-26-2
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| championship = conference
| season = 1977
| name = Southern California
| overall = 46-20
| conference = 16-2
| confstanding = 1st
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| season = 1978
| name = Southern California
| overall = 54-9
| conference = 15-3
| confstanding = 1st
| postseason = College World Series Champions
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| name = Southern California
| overall = 33-24
| conference = 15-15
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| name = Southern California
| overall = 27-24
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| name = Southern California
| overall = 34-24
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| season = 1982
| name = Southern California
| overall = 23-36
| conference = 9-21
| confstanding = 6th
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| season = 1983
| name = Southern California
| overall = 32-23-1
| conference = 17-13
| confstanding = T-2nd
| postseason =
}}
{{CBB yearly record entry
| championship =
| season = 1984
| name = Southern California
| overall = 44-23
| conference = 18-12
| confstanding = T-2nd
| postseason = NCAA West I Regional
}}
{{CBB yearly record entry
| championship =
| season = 1985
| name = Southern California
| overall = 22-44
| conference = 5-25
| confstanding = 6th
| postseason =
}}
{{CBB yearly record entry
| championship =
| season = 1986
| name = Southern California
| overall = 26-29
| conference = 12-18
| confstanding = 4th
| postseason =
}}
{{CBB yearly record subtotal
| name = Southern California
| overall = 1,332–571–11
| confrecord = 547–285–2
}}
{{CBB yearly record end
| overall = 1,332–571–11
}}
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