The San Diego Padres is an American professional baseball franchise based in San Diego, California. The Padres competes in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the National League (NL) Western division. Founded in 1969, Padres has won two NL banners - in 1984 and 1998, losing in the second World Series of the year. By 2017, they have had 14 seasons of victory in franchise history. The Padres is one of the two Major League Baseball teams (the other is Los Angeles Angels) in California from that state; Athletics originally came from Philadelphia (and moved to the state of Kansas City), and Dodgers and Giants came from two New York City - Brooklyn and Manhattan regions. The Padres is the only major professional sports franchise to be located in San Diego, after relocating Chargers to Los Angeles in 2017. The Padres is the only MLB team that does not share its city with other major league professional sports leagues.
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Franchise history
Little League Team
The Padres adopted their name from the Pacific Coast League team that arrived in San Diego in 1936. It was a small league franchise winning the PCL title in 1937, led by 18-year-old Ted Williams, the future of the resident Hall-of-Famer genuine San Diego. The team name, Spanish for "father", refers to the Spanish Franciscan monk who founded San Diego in 1769.
Major League Padres
In 1969, Padres joined the Major League Baseball ranks as one of four new expansion teams, along with the Montreal Expos (now the Washington Nationals), the Kansas City Royals, and the Seattle Pilots (now Milwaukee Brewers). Their original owners are C. Arnholt Smith, a prominent San Diego businessman and former PCL Padres interested owner including banking, tuna fishing, hotels, real estate, and airlines. Despite initial excitement, the guidance of the old baseball executives, Eddie Leishman and Buzzie Bavasi as well as the new playing field, the team struggled; Padres finished in last place in each of his first six seasons at NL West, losing 100 matches or more four times. One of the few bright spots on the team during the early years was first baseman and slugger Nate Colbert, an expansionist from Houston Astros and still a career leader Padres at home run.
The team's luck gradually improved as they won five Western League titles and reached the World Series twice, in 1984 and in 1998, but lost twice. The Padres main draw during the 1980s and 1990s was Tony Gwynn, who won eight league batting titles. They moved to their current stadium, Petco Park, in 2004.
By 2017, Padres is the only team in MLB yet to throw a no-hitter since their addition to the league in 1969.
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Spring training
The team has played a spring training game at Peoria Sports Complex in Peoria, Arizona since 1994. They share the stadium with the Seattle Mariners.
From 1969 to 1993, Padres held spring training in Yuma, Arizona in Desert Sun Stadium. Due to short driving distance and direct highway routes (170 miles, all on Interstate 8), Yuma is very popular with Padres fans, and many fans will travel by car from San Diego for spring training. The move from Yuma to Peoria was highly controversial, but was retained by the team as a reflection of the low quality of facilities in Yuma and the long journey required to play against other Arizona-based spring training teams (all located in Phoenix and the Tucson area, far from Yuma).
Logo and color
Throughout the history of the team, San Diego Padres has used many logos, patches, and color combinations. One of their first patches describes a monk swinging a bat with Padres writing at the top while standing in a sun-like figure with San Diego Padres on the outside. The "Swinging Friar" has appeared on the uniform on and off since (he is currently in the left arm of an alternative naval jersey) although the monk's head has been tweaked from the original in recent years, and is currently the mascot of the team.
In 1985, Padres switched to a script-like logo where Padres was skewed. That would later become the script logo for Padres. The color of the team turned brown and orange and remained this way during the 1990 season.
In 1989 Padres took the written Padres logo that was used from 1985 to 1988 and put it in a brown ring that read "San Diego Baseball Club" with a striped center. In 1991, the logo was converted into a silver ring with the Padres script changing from brown to blue. The logo lasted only one year, as Padres changed their logo for the third time in three years, again by changing the color of the ring. The logo becomes a white ring with fewer lines in the middle and a dark blue Padres script with orange shadow. In 1991, the color of the team also changed, into a combination of orange and navy blue.
For the 2001 season, Padres removed the lines from their shirts and went with the white house jersey with the Padres name on the front in a navy blue color. The pinstripe jerseys were used as alternate shirts on certain occasions throughout the 2001 season. The Padres retained this color and design scheme for three seasons until the 2004 season, where they moved to their new baseball stadium.
The logo completely changed when the team changed the stadium between the 2003 and 2004 seasons, with the new logo looking similar to a home plate with San Diego written in a sand font in the upper right corner and the new Padres script written entirely in the center. Waves finished at the bottom of the plate. The Navy remains but the sandy yellow color replaces the oranges as a secondary color. The color of the team also changed, into blue sea and brown sand. For the next seven seasons, Padres is the only team in Major League Baseball that does not have a gray jersey, with teams usually playing with blue shirts or sand on the road and white or blue shirts at home. In 2011, San Diego was removed from the top right corner of the logo and the uniform was much changed from sand to gray.
For the 2012 season, Padres launches a new main logo, featuring a hat logo inside the navy blue circle with the words "San Diego Padres Baseball Club" that adorns the outer circle. The "swinging friar" logo is pink blue and white at the moment. Another secondary logo featured Padres script was brought in from the previous year's logo under Petco Park's depiction in the sand and above the team's first season year (EST 1969). Blue and sand versions will be used in home uniforms, with blue and white versions to be used on uniforms away and uniform alternatives.
For the 2016 season, San Diego wore a blue and yellow color scheme, similar to the MLB All Star Game 2016 concept logo. Also for the 2016 season San Diego added new brown and yellow alternative uniforms for most wear during Friday's home game.
After the 2016 season, Padres revealed a new color scheme and a new shirt for the second year in a row. Yellow has been removed from their uniform and has now returned to a combination of blue sea and white. The word Padres is now in front of the home uniform with a new word, the same as the street uniform. The Padres will also replace their camouflage shirts, turning the naval camouflage of 2016 into a Marine camouflage for the 2017 season.
Military appreciation
Beginning in 1996, Padres became the first national sports team to have an annual military appreciation event. After 2000, Padres began to wear camouflage in honor of the military. Jersey has gone through three different versions. Beginning in 2008, Padres began wearing a camouflage shirt for every Sunday home game. They also wear this uniform on Memorial Day, Independence Day, and Labor Day. Starting in 2011, Padres has turned the camouflage design into a more modern "digital" design, using the MARPAT design after receiving permission from Conway Command-later, and dropping the green of the jersey letter and logo. Greens have been replaced with olive-sized colors (also in caps worn with jersey). Since 1995, Recruiting Marines from the nearby Marine Corps Recruit Depot frequently visit the game en masse during Military Appreciation Day, uniformed, often filling the entire section on the top deck of Petco Park. As they attend, the team commemorates this with the Fourth Specialized Inning Stretching featuring the Marine Hymne. As of April 2005, more than 60,000 marines were hosted by Padres. This is part of a broad military outreach program, which also includes a series of Military Award Night games, and game cassettes sent to US Navy ships deployed to the Pacific Fleet to see ships (most of the Pacific Fleet teleported in San Diego).
The San Diego area is home to a number of military installations, including several Marine and Coast Guard stations based in San Diego Bay, Marine Corps Air Station Miramar (former home of the Top Gun training program), and Marine Corps training camp at Camp Pendleton. The civilian population working on the base amounts to about 5% of the working population in the region.
Mascot
The current "Swinging Friar" is the mascot of the team. Some in the past have confused The Famous Chicken as the mascot of Padres. Although he appears occasionally at San Diego sporting events, he has never been the official mascot of the San Diego sports team.
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Fast facts
- Founded: 1969 (National League Expansion)
- Current uniform color: Blue, White
- logo design: Interlocking white 'S' and 'D'
- Hometown Hero: Tony Gwynn
- Nickname: The Friars, "Pads" (pronounced as "Pods")
- The winning season: (1998) 98-64. Title of Western Division and Winner of Pennant National League.
- Most of the losing season: (1969) 52-110. MLB inaugural season.
- Local television: Fox Sports San Diego.
- TV Announcer: Don Orsillo, Mark Grant, Mike Pomeranz (pre-game/post-game, substitute announcer), Mark Sweeney (pre-match/post-sideline reporter), Steve Finley (replacing pre-game/post-match, side reporter)
- Local radio: 97.3 Fans, La Poderosa 860 AM (en espaÃÆ' Â ± ol).
- Radio announcer: Ted Leitner, Tony Gwynn, Jr. Jesse Agler, Eduardo Ortega (Spain), Carlos HernÃÆ'¡ndez (Spain)
- Spring training facility: Peoria Sports Complex, Peoria, Arizona
- Rivals: Arizona Diamondbacks (Division), Colorado Rockies (Division), Los Angeles Dodgers (Division, geographic), San Francisco Giants (Division), and Seattle Mariners (Inter-league)
Achievements
Award winners and league leaders
Team notes (single-season and career)
Baseball Hall of Famers
The following elected members are Baseball Hall of Fame playing and/or managed for Padres.
Recipient of the Ford C. Frick Award (broadcaster)
Retired number
The Padres has retired six points. Five to honor the player Padre and another is number 42 Jackie Robinson, who has been retired by all Major League Baseball. Retired figures are displayed on the upper deck facade behind the home plate.
Retirement number by Major League Baseball
The Padres also has a "star on the wall" in honor of broadcaster Jerry Coleman, referring to his distinctive phrase "Oh Doctor! You can hang stars on that baby!" Around the initials Ray Kroc's final owner is also shown. Both the star and the initials are painted gold on the front of the pressbox below the right field line accompanied by a white person's name. Kroc was honored in 1984, Coleman in 2001.
Team Hall of Fame
The following 14 people have been inducted into the San Diego Padres Hall of Fame since its inception in 1999.
San Diego Hall of Champions
Gwynn, Winfield, Fingers, Gossage, Randy Jones, and Graig Nettles (3B, 1984-1987) are members of the San Diego Hall of Champions, open to native San Diego area athletes (as well as Nettles) as well as for those who play for the San Diego team (like Gwynn).
List of current names
Championship
Minor league affiliation
Radio and television
In the 2018 season, the Padres radio broadcast in English was brought by 97.3 The Fan , having previously been taken by KBZT twin stations after the acquisition of radio rights by Entercom in 2017. Ted Leitner is the lead broadcaster of play-by -play, with Jesse Agler working in the middle of every game and Bob Scanlan serving as a color analyst. The game is also broadcast in Spanish at XEMO-AM, "La Poderosa 860 AM", with Eduardo Ortega, Carlos HernÃÆ'¡ndez and Pedro GutiÃÆ' Â © rrez announcing. Game Padre is also broadcast from 2006-2010 XHPRS-FM 105.7.
Game Padres is currently being broadcast by Fox Sports San Diego. Don Orsillo is a play-by-play broadcast role, with Mark Grant as a color analyst and either Julie Alexandria or Ron Zinter as a field reporter. Mike Pomeranz hosted Padres Live before and after the match with Mark Sweeney.
Spanish spellings for Sunday matches are visible on the XHAS-TDT channel 33. As of September 2007, Friday and Saturday Spanish matches are seen on the KBOP-CA 43 channel, until the station turns into an all-infomercial format. This made XHAS-TDT the only television station outside the air that carried Padres baseball. English-language versions of over-the-air broadcasts aired for years on XETV-TV, KCST-TV, KUSI-TV, KFMB-TV and KSWB-TV.
John Demott was the first public broadcaster announcer Padres when the team started in 1969. In the late 1970s Bruce Binkowski had taken over as a PA broadcaster, and became the longest serving broadcaster serving in team history, remaining until the end of the 1999 season. First DeMott and then Binkowski was also responsible with the PA announcing duties for the San Diego Chargers and the University of San Diego, Aztecs, both of whom were joint tenants at Qualcomm Stadium with Padres until Padres moved to Petco Park. From Petco Park's opening in 2004 to 2013, the PA broadcaster was Frank Anthony, the radio host with 105.7 The Walrus. On April 19, 2014, Alex Miniak was announced as the new Public Address announcer for San Diego Padres. Miniak used to be a PA broadcaster for New Hampshire Fisher Cats, a Double-A affiliate of Toronto Blue Jays.
The San Diego Padres was first portrayed in the 1979 NBC film made for TV The Kid from Left Field, starring Gary Coleman as Jackie Robinson "J.R." Cooper, a boy who is passionate about baseball, and put his knowledge to good use when he became Padres manager and helped them towards the World Series.
In 2016, San Diego Padres was once again portrayed in the Fox Pitch television series, starring Kylie Bunbury as Ginny Baker, the first woman to play in Major League Baseball. It only lasts for one season.
Education engagement
San Diego Padres founded the Padres Scholars program, the first of its kind among professional sports. Initially each Padres scholar was selected as a seventh grader and received a $ 5,000 scholarship after graduating from High School to continue his education. This program has reached 389 students from its founding in 1995 until now. Over the last few years, the program has undergone several changes to be effective as an educational standpoint. The program focuses on creating close relationships between selected scholars and teams. In 2011, 3 senior high school seniors will be selected to receive a $ 30,000 scholarship to be awarded through their higher education program. Maintaining this prestigious award depends on maintaining contact with Padres and providing evidence of a good academic position.
San Diego Padres is a sponsor and is heavily involved in most aspects of the Sports Business Management MBA degree program offered with the San Diego State University Business School of Business Administration. SDSU's Sports MBA is the only program of its ilk created in partnership with professional sports franchises. The curriculum focuses on the entire sports business industry, not just baseball. This program includes an internship. Padres senior management members regularly participate, including working with the ongoing development and coordination of the SDSU International Case Competition, which annually attracts the participation of top business schools.
See also
- American Travel: My Life in the Field, In the Air, and In The Air - Jerry Coleman's 2008 autobiography
References
Further reading
- Papucci, Nelson (2002). San Diego Padres, 1969-2002: Full History . Big League Press. ISBN: 9780971946606.
- Mitchell, Jane (2010). One on one: My journey with Hall of Famers, Fan Favorites, and Rising Stars . SDP Publishing Solutions. ISBN: 978-0-9824461-7-1. Ã,
External links
- Official San Diego Padres website
- San Diego Padres coverage by The San Diego Union-Tribune
- San Diego Padres Logos
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