Baseball Community Mourns OCC Coach John Altobelli
January 28, 2020
Sunlight gleamed over Wendell Pickens Field at Orange Coast College on Monday afternoon.
Had tragedy not struck the day before, one might have considered it to be perfect baseball weather.
Throughout the day, people went to the Costa Mesa school’s baseball stadium, dropping in to pay their respects to a man that touched many lives.
John Altobelli, 56, who won four California community college state championships in heading the Pirates baseball program for 27 years, died Sunday morning in the helicopter crash that claimed the lives of nine people in Calabasas.