Orange Coast College baseball coach John Altobelli died in Bryant helicopter crash
COSTA MESA, Calif. - A single bouquet of flowers sat on home plate as dozens of Orange Coast College former and current baseball players and coaches, and their family members and friends filed into Wendell Pickens Field on the school's Costa Mesa campus Sunday.
Under ominous gray skies, with an early afternoon chill in the air, they hugged each other tightly, cried on each others' shoulders and prayed together as they tried to come to grips with the tragedy that claimed their baseball coach Sunday morning.
John Altobelli, 56, who guided the Pirates to four California community college state championships and
