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Baseball: A renaissance for Crenshaw

Los Angeles Times staff writer Ben Bolch
By Ben Bolch
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Crenshaw’s baseball program, best known for producing former Dodgers outfielder Darryl Strawberry, is churning out some pretty big-time players again.

Former Cougar Trayvon Robinson, a center fielder who graduated in 2005, is the first player from the school to make the Dodgers’ 40-man roster since Strawberry in the 1990s. Second baseman Dan Nelson (Class of 2004) is in high Class-A in the Washington Nationals organization and California sophomore outfielder Cameron Hart (2008) became the first Cougar to play Division I college baseball in about 25 years.

Redshirt freshman Kenji Corbisiero (2009) is a walk-on with the Marist College Red Foxes, who last week defeated Villanova.

--Ben Bolch

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Ben Bolch

Ben Bolch has been a Los Angeles Times staff writer since 1999. He is serving his second stint as the UCLA beat writer, which seems fitting since he has covered almost every sports beat except hockey and horse racing. Bolch is also the author of the recently released book “100 Things UCLA Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die.” He previously covered UCLA basketball from 2010-11 before going on to cover the NBA and the Clippers for five years. He happily traded in gobs of hotel points and airline miles to return to cover UCLA basketball and football in the summer of 2016. Bolch was once selected by NBA TV’s “The Starters” as the “Worst of the Week” after questioning their celebrity journalism-style questions at an NBA All-Star game and considers it one of his finer moments.

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