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The 1969 Major League Baseball season was contested from April 7 to October 16, 1969. It included the third Major League Baseball expansion of the decade, with the Kansas City Royals , Montreal Expos , San Diego Padres , and Seattle Pilots each beginning play this season.
In 1967, C. Arnholt Smith, owner of the PCL San Diego Padres (PCL), won a bid for an expansion team in the National League for the 1969 season. On May 27, 1968, the National League officially awarded a franchise to San Diego to commence play in the 1969 season [27] for a fee of $12.5 million for the team. [30]
The 1969 San Diego Padres season was the inaugural season in franchise history. They joined the National League along with the Montreal Expos via the 1969 Major League Baseball expansion . In their inaugural season, the Padres went 52–110 (the same record as their expansion counterpart), finishing last in the newly created National League ...
The San Diego Hall of Champions was an American multi-sport museum in San Diego, California, until its closure in June 2017. [1] It housed the Breitbard Hall of Fame, San Diego's sports hall of fame , which is now located at Petco Park .
Westgate was built to replace the deteriorating Lane Field, where the minor-league Padres had played since 1936.Constructed for $1 million in private funds by Padres owner C. Arnholt Smith, Westgate was a modern ballpark with a capacity of 8,268 fans, with an eye to be expanded to major league size (up to 40,000) if necessary.
The Cubs began the 1969 season by winning 11 of their first 12 games and held first place from the first day of the season. [19] By late June, Hundley's batting average was above .300 along with 11 home runs earning him a spot as a reserve for the National League team in the 1969 All-Star Game .
Three days later, Williams hit his 300th career home run in a 6-4 win over the San Diego Padres, joining Banks as the second Cub to do so, and on August 17 he picked up his 2,000th hit, an 8th-inning single in a 5-4 road loss to the Braves; he was the fifth player to reach that total with the Cubs.
[5] [6] The 1969 contest remains the last All-Star Game to date to be played earlier than prime time in the Eastern United States. President Richard Nixon originally planned to attend the Tuesday night game and throw out the first ball , and then depart for the splashdown of Apollo 11 in the Pacific Ocean. [ 5 ]