1951 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 […]
Read More2015: Little League Legend Joe Schloss, 88
Joe Schloss, who operated a North Park sporting goods business for 69 years and coached the same Little League team for 59 seasons, passed away at age 88. Schloss, a 1944 graduate of San Diego High, coached a legion of youngsters for the North Park Little League and both of his sons spent many years in sports. […]
Read More2014: Mickelsen, Paulk, Verlasky Made Marks
Noel Mickelsen, Charlie Paulk, and Richard Verlasky recently passed. Mickelsen, 80, had a lengthy coaching career in San Diego’s East County after posting a 71-62 record in nine seasons of professional baseball, including three years in the AAA Pacific Coast League. The 6-foot, 6-inch Mickelsen was a star player on the 1955-56 San Diego State basketball team […]
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