San Diego Padres: The First Half Century captures some of the great players to wear a Padres uniform and takes baseball fans through some of the more memorable dates in Padres history. Not just dates that we always read about but the ones that truly tell the story of the franchise. If you're a longtime Padres fan or baseball fan, you'll enjoy the wonderful stories put together by SABR on the first 50 years of the Padres franchise.
Includes a foreword by Randy Jones and an Afterword by Major Garrett.
San Diego Padres: The First Half Century is the collaborative work of 51 members of the Society for American Baseball Research. It tells the stories of 25 Padres players-from Ashby to Winfield-several team executives and media members, the ballparks, and even a biography of The San Diego Chicken. You'll There are more than 25 accounts of standout games in franchise history and a few other features as well.
"I'm proud to be in the Padres Hall of Fame and have my number, 35, retired but more proud of the friends I've made and people I've met with my association with the Padres. Reading these stories has certainly brought many of those memories and I can't thank SABR enough for writing them."-from the Foreword by Randy Jones
PLAYERS
Andy Ashby Steve Ferenchick
Heath Bell by Geoff Young
Andy Benes by Alan Cohen
Ken Caminiti by Paul Doutrich
Nate Colbert by Gregory H. Wolf
Dave Dravecky by Wayne Strumpfer
Steve Finley by Bill Parker
Tim Flannery by Bob Webster
Cito Gaston by Alfonso L Tusa
Brian Giles by Mark Hodermarsky
Tony Gwynn by Dan D'Addona
Trevor Hoffman by Max Mannis
Randy Jones by Alan Cohen
Terry Kennedy by David E. Skelton
Clay Kirby Charles F. Faber
Ryan Klesko by Joel Rippel
Craig Lefferts by Steve West
Phil Nevin by Joel Rippel
Jake Peavy by Gerard Kwilecki
Gene Richards by Michael See
Benito Santiago by Thomas J. Brown Jr
.Eric Show by John Stahl
Garry Templeton by Nick Waddell
Will Venable by Jay Hurd
Dave Winfield by Doug Skipper
MANAGERS, EXECUTIVES, MEDIA
Bud Black by Nick Waddell
Bruce Bochy by Thomas J. Brown Jr.
Bob Chandler by Tom Larwin
Jerry Coleman by C. Paul Rogers IIIRay & Joan Kroc by Bob LeMoine