Current
Season
Team
History
All-Time Leaders Batting
Pitching
League Championship Titles: None
Ballpark: Lane Field
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Lane Field Opened:
1936 Capacity: 10,000
North Harbor Drive and West Broadway, San
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Factors
AVG overall .997
LHB .998, RHB .997
Doubles .896
Triples 1.263
HR overall .796
LHB .811, RHB .788 |
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Distances/wall heights
Left Field line 339 ft./7 ft.
Left Field 388 ft./7 ft.
Left-Center Field 433 ft./7 ft.
Center Field 480 ft./7 ft.
Right-Center Field 439 ft./7 ft.
Right Field 397 ft./7 ft.
Right Field line 355 ft./7 ft. |
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In the Redux
The Padres have yet to win a Pacific Coast League
championship. They made postseason appearances in
1924 as the Salt Lake City Bees, in 1931 and 1934
as the Hollywood Stars, and in 1938 in their
current incarnation as the San Diego Padres.
Real-life history
This much-traveled franchise’s PCL roots were in
Sacramento. After three seasons in the California
League, the Sacramento Sacts joined the PCL in
1909, but like earlier teams based in the state’s
small-town capitol found drawing profitable crowds
a tough row to hoe. They struggled there for a few
years, then spent a partial year in San Francisco
as the Mission Wolves in 1914. In 1915 a Salt Lake
City group including mining magnate Bill
“Hardrock” Lane purchased the team and moved them
to Utah’s capital, where they were known as the
Bees; by 1917 Lane had purchased the controlling
shares of the club. The Bees played in tiny
Bonneville Park, and the combination of the thin
mountain air and the short distance to the
outfield fence led to astronomical home run
totals. The Bees’ Tony Lazzeri hit 60 home runs in
1925 (while fashioning a Hall of Fame career in
the majors, the second baseman hit no more than 18
in any big league campaign).
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The 1937 Padres, PCL Champions |
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The Bees drew fairly well in Salt Lake City, but
the other PCL owners were never happy about the
cost of travel to Utah, and Lane was pressured to
relocate. In 1926 he moved the club to Los
Angeles, where they were briefly known as the
Hollywood Bees before settling on the flashier and
more familiar Hollywood Stars.
This first edition of the Stars never actually
played in Hollywood, spending their decade-long
L.A. tenure as tenants of the Los Angeles Angels
at the original Wrigley Field. Although the club
never drew as well as Lane had hoped, the Stars at
least found on-field success, winning PCL pennants
in 1929 and 1930.
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The friar mascot predates the MLB Padres.
A 19-year old fan named Carlos Hadaway won
a “Create Our Brand for Us and Get Paid
Nothing” contest in 1961. |
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Refusing to accept a 100% rent hike after the
1935 season, Lane moved the team to San Diego,
where they became the Padres. Playing in the
hastily-built Lane Field, the club won a pennant
in 1937, its second year in the city. Although
they were unable to repeat that success for more
than two decades, the team had found a home. In
1957 they were purchased by banker C. Arnholt
Smith, who moved them to a new facility, Westgate
Park, that year. The Padres won pennants as a Reds
affiliate in 1962 and 1964 and as a Phillies
affiliate in 1967.
The PCL Padres officially folded after the 1968
season. Smith’s bid for a National League
franchise had been accepted, and as the owner of
the San Diego Padres name, he transferred it to
his new team in 1969.
Salt Lake City Bees/Hollywood Stars/San
Diego Padres Uniform History
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1921-1923 Home
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1924-1925 Home
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1926-1935 Home
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1936-1938 Home
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1939 Home
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1921-1925 Away
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1926-1935 Away
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1936-1938 Away
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1939 Away
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1940 Home
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1941 Home
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1942-1944 Home
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1945-1946 Home
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1947-1948 Home
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1940 Away
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1941 Away
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1942-1944 Away
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1945-1946 Away
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1947-1948 Away
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1949 Home
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1950 Home
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1951-1952 Home
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1953 Home
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1954-1966 Home
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1949 Away
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1950 Away
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1951-1952 Away
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1953 Away
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1954-1963 Away
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1967-1968 Home
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1964-1966 Away
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1967-1968 Away
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