Carlos Bauer
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The Obscure History of Baseball in San Diego: Before the Padres Came to Town, 1870-1936 recounts San Diego's 66-year struggle to become part of Organi
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zed Baseball. Presented is a year-by-year chronology of San Diego's record in winter league baseball, semipro ball, and two failed attempts at fielding ballclubs in minor league baseball before the Padres formed an integral part of the Pacific Coast League in 1936.
Accompanying the narrative are season stats and standings for virtually every semipro league extant and career records of many of the players who appeared of the sandlots of the city. A comprehensive list of teams, leagues, ballparks in and around the city is incuded, along with ballpark diagrams by Larry Zuckerman.
Richard Johnson, Curator, The Sports Museum, stated: "Carlos Bauer's comprehensive history of baseball in San Diego is a truly remarkable book."
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