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Quick - who' do you thi'nk of when we mention Moeller High School? · ~·We thought. so:- ~- ~ . 'May. we suggest a new name? Mike Cameron. · , · -~Cameron." is Moeller's baseball coach who last' week celebrated" his~ SOOth career victory at ·the Crusader. helrri when Moeller defeated Mt:· Healthy-. · • . , . · . ; 500 wins.-Tl1at other name synonymous with· Moeller sports neve~. won 500 games._ Never coached 500 games, for that matter .. '• Yes, we know football plays only 10 games a _season (in Moeller's case, us~:~ally more) and baseball plays as many as 25 or 30 games a season:·. . - ~ ~-~ . . . . . . .' :·.We· also know tha~ being a dominant te~m in baseball is, a lot rriore ·difficult. Size of playerS: doesri 1 t. matter. Intensity and emoti'on d~n'~ play·as big a ·part. . • . · .. · , '. · In baseball, success is often determined by 'which team is_ better prepared, which team better executes the fundamentals, which team lietter knows the game - in short, which team is oetter coached. . . . ': . . . . • How have Cameron's. teams measured to that standard? All yod have to do is see how many former .Moeller ..players made a career 'of the game long after leaving high school: Len Matuszek, ~uddy Bell, Bill Long,_Barry: Larkin, Ken Griffey Jr., and in the not-too-distant future, probably Mike Bell and others. Cameroq knows how _to prepare players for the future, and how to prepare teams fo! the postseason. Moeller's state championship last season was as dominant a tournament perfor-· mance as a baseball team dm display .. Why is Mike Cameron the name ,that should come to mind when people _think of Moeller High School? . We can offer at lea~t.500 reasons.