Bibliograph

Baseball in San Diego, from the plaza to the Padres, Bill Swank in conjunction with San Diego Historical Society

Type

Label

Baseball in San Diego, from the plaza to the Padres, Bill Swank in conjunction with San Diego Historical Society

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Baseball in San Diego

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Bill Swank in conjunction with San Diego Historical Society

Series statement

Images of baseball

Sub title

from the plaza to the Padres

Summary

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 Giants practically 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

Target audience

adult

Classification