1975 Baseball: Hoover Coach Moves On After Third Section Championship
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 the Apaches won more than 900 games in the next 39 years before Bartow retired in 2014. Until Ted Williams Field was built on the […]
1974 Baseball: Oceanside and Ciammachilli Come Close
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, Helix, El Capitan, Crawford, Point Loma, San Diego, Santana, Kearny, Clairemont, and University had won or gotten to the championship game from 1961-73, and they […]
1973 Baseball: Huddleston’s Pointers Continue City Dominance
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 AA championship when it defeated Hoover, 12-2, in the playoff finals. The Pointers, who fell to University in the 1972 championship, were coached by Dick […]
1972 Baseball: Uni Waded Through Section’s Top Teams To Title
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 the Dons to their first CIF championship and followed with titles in 1978, ’80, and ’81, figurative mileposts for the 1961 Uni graduate who coached […]
1936 Baseball: Ted Williams and Jackie Robinson Made for a Memorable Season
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 knocked down some giants and went all the way to the Southern California finals. 3/31/36 A total of 31 teams and up to 600 players […]
1990 Baseball: It’s season of Foothillers, Marauders, and Eagles
Grossmont became the eighth different team since 1980 to win the San Diego Section 2-A championship. Forgotten by many, the title also was the Foothillers’ first since they claimed a larger bauble. They won the Southern Section major division crown, 5-0, over Compton in 1951. The Foothillers also won a Southern Section minor division title […]