1968 Baseball: Colts Pluck Cardinals’ Hat Trick in Fourth Try
Hoover was favored and aiming for what sportswriters euphemistically called a hat trick. The term, more favored in ice hockey and soccer, meant a player had scored three goals. The Cardinals were shooting for a third title, having won the Lions Tournament and Eastern League (they could have claimed a fourth after being selected No. […]
Read More1967 Baseball: Go East, Young Man; Power Continues to Shift From Cavers
San Diego High, one year removed from a San Diego Section championship, posted a 10-12 record. The sub-.500 finish represented the Cavemen’s poorest record since the 1907 squad of coach Lawrence Carr, Sr., was 0-7. Yes, 1907, according to Don King’s Caver Conquest. Power had moved East after being seated for most of the last […]
Read More1947 Baseball: A Vote for Point Loma As No. 1
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 of all. The Pointers won the prestigious Pomona 20-30 Rotary Club tournament, split two games with Hoover, and […]
Read More1946 Baseball: Morrow is Back and so are Hilltoppers
Dewey J. (Mike) Morrow, a University of California at Berkeley graduate from Montana, returned from the war to San Diego High and coached the Hilltoppers to his eighth CIF Southern Section championship in Morrow’s 16 seasons and first since 1939. Writer Norrie West of the Evening Tribune said of Morrow’s return: “Not a soul will […]
Read More1966 Baseball II: Strom’s Rubber Arm Leads Cavers to Title
San Diego’s surprising, late-season ride on the left arm of pitcher Brent Strom resulted in the Cavers’ first major championship since they won the Southern Section title in 1952. And it was to be the Cavers’ last, ending a run that began with a state championship in 1918. Changing demographics, new schools, new neighborhoods, revised […]
Read More1966 Baseball I: Cardinals to Honor Ted Williams With New Ball Yard
On March 21 the Hoover student body announced a fund-raising drive for a new baseball facility, Ted Williams Field, in honor of the January, 1937, graduate and major league baseball Hall of Fame inductee. For years the Cardinals played home games in the school’s football stadium, with a rightfield fence, beyond the track, a Little […]
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