San Diego Prep Sports History Blog
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Read the highlights on San Diego baseball games from the 1900s, as well as games happening today. I'm Rick Smith and I was a young sportswriter covering the city high schools for the Evening Tribune in the 1960s, but my preparation for this assignment began years before. I'd make trips to the Central Library newspaper room and view microfilm of old issues of the Tribune and The San..
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Jerry Bartow ended a 14-season run at Hoover with his third San Diego Section championship and with an overall record of 226-119 (.656) then headed off to Southwestern College, where ..read more
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For the first time in the San Diego Section’s 14 years, a team not from the city or the eastern suburbs had reached the playoff finals. Twenty-six squads, including Hoover ..read more
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Baseball in the San Diego Section was an urban game. Point Loma became the sixth different and overall 11th city squad in the Section’s 13 seasons to win the Class ..read more
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Strong teams abounded but it was University of San Diego High, third in the Western League and only 12-10 overall, that emerged in the Class AA playoffs. Dick Serrano coached ..read more
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Two of baseball’s all-time greatest players were playing with hundreds of so-called mortals. Hoover’s Ted Williams and Pasadena Muir Tech’s Jackie Robinson trod on the diamonds and little Escondido High ..read more
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