Pitching Guru Tom House Added to USC Staff

Tom House will return to his alma mater as a pitching coach for USC's 2008 season.  He will join one of the most storied programs in college baseball which has the most College World Series wins in the history of college baseball. 

House was drafted to the Atlanta Braves in 1967 and quickly advanced to the pros in 1971.  He is best remembered for openly admitting to using steroids during the steroid fiasco with congress.  He said that he started experimenting with them in the early 70's and said that at least 6 guys from every pitching staff he knew used steroids.  He was also made famous by catching Hank Aaron's 715th home run that broke Babe Ruth's record.  He ran the ball from the left field bullpen to Aaron in the historic moment in baseball history.

House is a storied pitching coach.  He coached at many MLB teams and mentored pitchers Nolan Ryan as well as Mark Prior.  He is known to use unusual coaching techniques and runs his own sports clinic as well as a number of youth pitching camps.  He has written several baseball coaching books as well as an autobiography.