It’s a Major League City or It Isn’t: San Diego’s Padres Step Up to the Big Leagues
National League president Warren Giles was in San Diego for Opening Day, April 8, 1969, and here joins Buzzie Bavasi holding an aerial photograph of the Padres’ new ballpark, San Diego Stadium. (Courtesy of Tom Larwin) San Diego’s quest for major-league baseball began in the mid- to late 1950s, around the time Los Angeles […]