1962 Baseball: Crawford Begins Dominant Decade
Crawford was emerging as a legendary power and would appear in the San Diego Section championship game six times, winning four, by the end of the decade. The Colts’ coach was Bill Sandback, a hockey-playing Minnesota transplant who, after seeking more agreeable weather, moved west, and taught one year at Memorial Junior High before becoming […]
Read More1960: San Diego’s Final Act in Southern Section: Baseball, Track and Field.
A couple newcomers led the shouting in a last hurrah for San Diego. Area schools were preparing to leave the Southern Section after 47 years and embark on their own, 31 institutions forming the San Diego Section in the next school year. Clairemont and El Capitan, numbers 30 and 31, ignored usually unsuccessful results for […]
Read More1951 Baseball & Track: Two Sports, Almost Two Champions
Grossmont was the champion in baseball. San Diego High was the champion in track and field…for three days. San Diego lost a title after a review of film from the 440-yard race in the Southern Section finals revealed that Hal Espy had finished fifth and not fourth, taking away a point from the Cavemen and […]
Read More2010-2017: To Our Subscribers and Passers-by
Next month, on Feb. 14 [2017], will mark the seventh year since we undertook a challenge. I wanted to write the history of San Diego County high school football. That’s where my career started and where it will end. Well, I didn’t write the history (that is almost infinite), but I gave it a shot. […]
Read More2016: Pete Jernigan, Played Baseball, Coached Softball
Paul Douglas (Pete) Jernigan, one of the San Diego area’s most accomplished athletes and coaches, passed away recently at his home in Hereford, Arizona. Jernigan, 75, played 10 seasons of professional baseball and later coached successful high school and Under 18 softball teams. He was named “Mr. Youth Sports” by the El Cajon Parks and […]
Read More2016: Legendary Coach Ed Sanclemente, 92
Lewis Edward Sanclemente, 92, passed away recently, leaving behind a multitude of friends and admirers and memories of a lifetime spent in or around baseball. Ed Sanclemente grew up near the University Heights playground, where he shagged baseballs for young slugger Ted Williams and honed a game that would take Sanclemente to national championships on two levels. Sanclemente played for […]
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