1938 Baseball, Looking Back: Strange, Disappointing Ending for Hilltoppers
Originally published Oct. 25, 2024. San Diego’s march to a Southern Section championship was derailed by Glendale in the most confusing finish in the 20-season career of coach Mike Morrow. “Bait and switch” is a often-used political term for what happened to the Hilltoppers. They were told by CIF boss Seth Van Patten that a […]
Read More1935 Baseball: Slow Beginning Didn’t Stop Hilltoppers From 10th Championship
Coach Mike Morrow’s team started with an uneven, 2-3-1 record and needed a tie-breaking playoff win over Long Beach Poly for the Coast League championship and berth in the Southern Section playoffs. Vance Randolph, sidelined a few games because of illness, was the Hilltoppers’ most-valuable player, with a .521 season batting average and pitched the […]
Read More1947, Looking Back: A Vote for Point Loma As No. 1
The narrative originally was posted on Nov. 16, 2012. Coach Les Cassie’s Hoover Cardinals were within nine outs of a berth in the Southern California finals. San Diego High was San Diego High, reliably formidable. But Don Clarkson’s Point Loma Pointers may have been the best team of all. The Pointers won the prestigious Pomona […]
Read More1944 Track & Baseball: Hoover (Track), San Diego, Hoover, and Sweetwater (Baseball) Are First
Baseball and track and field continued to feel the effects of the World War II with shorter seasons and limited participation. Teachers and students were answering the call from Uncle Sam and leaving for the military. Allied forces continued to fight fierce battles in Europe and the Pacific. No official count of the number of […]
Read More1945 Baseball: School, Military, Jobs, Money Affect Students
World War II was almost over (Victory in Europe was declared in May) and CIF travel restrictions for high school teams virtually had ended, but calls to the colors and other dynamics continued. By the 1944-45 school year San Diego High enrollment had dropped to 2,694 students, with 750 graduates, down from a high of […]
Read More1980 Baseball: Mt. Carmel Star Starred as Baseball Executive
Bill Beane of Mt. Carmel was a star player for the Sundevils and the first player selected in the 1980 major league draft by the New York Mets. “Billy” Beane played five seasons in the majors and joined the Oakland Athletics as an advance scout in 1990, beginning a front office career in which today […]
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