{"id":4130,"date":"2013-07-14T07:14:08","date_gmt":"2013-07-14T13:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=4130"},"modified":"2013-07-13T15:40:42","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T21:40:42","slug":"ballpark-tour-qualcomm-stadium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/ballpark-tour-qualcomm-stadium\/","title":{"rendered":"Ballpark Tour: Qualcomm Stadium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/JackMurphy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4132\" alt=\"JackMurphy\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/JackMurphy.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/JackMurphy.jpg 640w, https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/JackMurphy-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Stadium Name:<\/strong>\u00a0Qualcomm Stadium<\/p>\n<p><strong>Location:<\/strong> San Diego<\/p>\n<p><strong>Home Team:<\/strong> Padres<\/p>\n<p><strong>Years in Service:<\/strong> 1969 &#8211; 2003<\/p>\n<p><strong>Visits:<\/strong> 1<\/p>\n<p>San Diego Stadium opened on August 20, 1967 as the home of the AFL&#8217;s Chargers and opened for baseball the following spring for the final season of the minor league San Diego Padres.\u00a0 The following season, San Diego&#8217;s expansion team, also named the Padres, moved in and stayed as the main tenants until the end of the 2003 season.\u00a0 The stadium was renamed in 1980 for local sportswriter Jack Murphy, who had championed support for the building of the stadium, after he passed away.\u00a0 That name stuck until 1997, when the naming rights were sold to technology company Qualcomm.<\/p>\n<p>In 2003, I was in San Diego for what, to date, was my 3rd and final Comic Con.\u00a0 On the afternoon of July 17, I skipped out on the con and took the trolley out to Mission Valley to take in the day&#8217;s contest between the Padres and the Diamondbacks.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t remember much about the game, which the Diamondbacks won handidly 9-1, other than Curt Schilling taking the bump for the Dbacks.\u00a0 The park, one of the last remaining cookie cutter stadiums that popped up in the late 60s and early 70s and designed to house both baseball and football teams while doing service to neither, did not really register one way or the other and hold&#8217;s no particular space in my memory.\u00a0 I do seem to remember a giant outdoor escalator, but that might have been Candlestick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stadium Name:\u00a0Qualcomm Stadium Location: San Diego Home Team: Padres Years in Service: 1969 &#8211; 2003 Visits: 1 San Diego Stadium opened on August 20, 1967 as the home of the AFL&#8217;s Chargers and opened for baseball the following spring for the final season of the minor league San Diego Padres.\u00a0 The following season, San Diego&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[3583,3271,3582,2780,122,3584,3585,231,611,3278,3581],"class_list":["post-4130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","tag-afl","tag-candlestick-park","tag-chargers","tag-curt-schilling","tag-diamondbacks","tag-jack-murphy","tag-jack-murphy-stadium","tag-padres","tag-qualcomm-stadium","tag-san-diego-comic-con","tag-san-diego-stadium"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4130"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4251,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4130\/revisions\/4251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}