Sergio Brown is a gem at mining baseball diamonds

As recruiting coups go, this was a smash-and-grab on par with the Brinks robbery. As novelties went, this became an audacious first. As the complexion of college baseball at the dawn of the 21st century went, this served as a game-changer — one that possibly took the national title away from one Southern California university and dropped it into the receptive hands of another.
The coup involved Cal State Fullerton’s baseball recruiting coordinator Sergio Brown — then the univer