Wasn't aware of Rolando, but Michael Harper is the guy. He's now an insurance agent here in Portland. BTW - Harper once donated an autographed game-worn jersey to a fundraising auction for a non-profit here and I bought it at the auction and gave it to my son. A few years later, he wore it to a Blazer Alumni Team game in which Harper was playing. Harper saw him with the jersey on and called him out to the floor to shoot two free throws for him during the game. My kid made both of them and the place went nuts. Harper and some of the other ex-Blazers high fived him. My son still talks about it every so often.
As to Bret Saberhagen, I was told he attended my school only for his freshman year, then moved. I don't know if that's accurate or not. Recently, I emailed Jim Bouton and he said the thing he liked most about our HS was the great sports programs and the think he liked least was the huge number of kids. In those days, we usually had about 4000 attending. My graduating class had 712 (I was the youngest). Here's a link to my class website, in case you're really bored and have nothing to do. It's developed and managed by one of my former classmates whose company makes computer simulated war games for the US military. Cool!
The website is full of stuff from the 60s. Also cool!
Index 2007-11-03