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Baseball in San Diego

by Bill Swank
San Diego Historical Society
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Baseball in San Diego: From the Plaza to the Padres, takes the reader on a seven-decade journey from Horton Plaza, the site of San Diego's first base ball game in 1871, to lower Broadway and the future home of Lane Field. Before the Pacific Coast League, San Diego had three Class D teams. One was the Bears, whose frustrated owner Dick Cooley complained, �I don't believe they'll make baseball pay here in a thousand years.� With America's finest year-round climate, barnstorming and black baseball were popular attractions. Rube Foster's Chicago American Giantspractically lived in San Diego in the winter of 1913. All the while, there were constant struggles between the forces of amateur and professional baseball for players, diamonds, and sports coverage.

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