Send-off for a El Segundo coaching great - ContraCostaTimes.com

Friends and family members took turns telling stories and anecdotes about John Stevenson, the El Segundo High School baseball coach who died earlier this month, at a memorial service Saturday.

They talked about his loyalty, his tenacity, his talent for plotting strategies and his notoriety behind the wheel of a car. His son, Eric, held back tears when he talked about the love he felt for his father and the tender moments the two of them shared over the years.

But perhaps the real story was in the audience seated in the auditorium at El Segundo High School, where hundreds of former students and players gathered to say one last farewell to Stevenson, the winningest coach in California history. Many wore blue baseball caps or jerseys of the Eagles, the team he led for so many years.

They were fresh-faced college students in their 20s and gray-haired retirees in their 60s. And they all owed a debt to Stevenson, who died of a heart attack Jan. 11. He was 76.

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