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John Radcliffe, Danny Gans’ high school baseball coach

By Claire Noland
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Times sportswriter Jerry Crowe notes in his Text messages from press row column that John Radcliffe, who coached baseball at Torrance High School from 1968 to 1981, died Tuesday. Among Radcliffe’s team members was Danny Gans, the baseball player turned Las Vegas entertainer who died unexpectedly in May.

-- Claire Noland

Afterword
Claire Noland

Claire Noland, who joined the Los Angeles Times in 1994, became editor of curated email newsletters in spring 2015. She had been in the Obituary Department since 2006, the last six years as editor. Before that, she was an editor in Sports. A California native and graduate of Mount St. Mary’s College in Los Angeles, she worked at the Antelope Valley Press, Los Angeles Daily News and Minneapolis Star Tribune. She left The Times in December 2015.

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