Dan Fukushima, past president of the California Coaches Assn. And then hauling the leftover fruit out to farms for cattle to chew.

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Some 36 years later, a coach's life has greatly changed. Sports are played less over single seasons, more over entire calendar years. The pressure on coaches to win seems to have swollen along with the national debt. Many coaches, such as Laguna Hills' Jack Hodges, earn extra money in their areas of expertise.

Hodges works at the Angel Country Baseball Camp at El Dorado High School, training to year-old players.

For other coaches, the summer is just an extension of the sports season, since many players continue training throughout the year. High school baseball coaches continue working unofficially with their players by becoming American Legion coaches.

Some coaches oversee weightlifting and help out in other unofficial summer programs. But then there are those who do something completely different in the dry season. Gerry Sedoo, who coaches baseball at Foothill High School, spends summers hopping throughout the country, hawking pitching machines at various expositions.

Paul Bottiaux, who coaches basketball at Sonora, paints houses in the summer. Capistrano Valley baseball assistant Craig Anderson works as a security guard. And then there's John Miklas, the brawny strength and defensive-line coach at Dana Hills, who sells maternity clothes at swap meets. Even Hodges, who remains tied to baseball in the summer, has a greeting card company on the side.

He spends his summers working as a salesman in his family's trophy-engraving business when he isn't coaching the Huntington Beach football team in the early morning or the Suns, a Metro League team composed mainly of Huntington Beach players, in the evening. Bob Zamora, whose Capistrano Valley baseball team won the Southern Section 2-A championship, drives a beer truck.

In the earlier days, when the kids were younger, I had to drive five days a week. Now, I work to make weekend money or just pass the time. Zamora had other reasons for his other work. Because teachers do not work all year, they are not eligible for Social Security benefits. Instead, they have a pension plan of their own. Zamora, though, wanted Social Security benefits as well, so he once worked on an oil rig, and he has been driving the beer truck for 12 straight summers in an effort to qualify for minimum Social Security benefits.

Zamora begins driving at 6: He then returns for another load. With this you get to use your muscles. In the summer the beer sales go up, so they need more drivers. Beer sales then fall off in September, and they don't need as many drivers. That's ideal because I have to go back to school. Zamora is a man who works for eight dollars an hour and escape, but Huntington Beach's Dodd is a man whose schedule begins red-lining in the summer.

But I have a house, and the bills still come. Winning is more important to us than sitting in Palm Springs. It's terrible, but there's something about it that we like. The jobs aren't without their problems. Dodd says he sometimes can't wait for September.

Zamora says he is sometimes ordered around by store owners. Other coaches, especially those who have working wives, don't see why the Zamoras and Dodds don't spend more time relaxing and concentrating on their teams in the summer. This is especially true at a time when coaches are having to work longer and harder merely to keep up with their rivals. How Coaches Make the Summer Pay Off: Some Take On Extra Jobs to Help Make Ends Meet.

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