March 21, 2014 by Wayne McBrayer & Rebecca Herman Day 2 of Spring Training Trip: March 7, 2014 Friday was a travel day for us. We were heading to Maryvale Baseball Park for our second day of Padres baseball. Maryvale is the home of…
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Welcome Home Dave Freisleben – Part III
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Posted in At the Ballpark, Padres Players, Spring Training
Posted in At the Ballpark, Padres Players, Spring Training
Welcome Home Dave Freisleben – Part II
March 19, 2014 by Wayne McBrayer & Rebecca Herman Day 1 of Spring Training Trip: March 6, 2014 We traveled to Yuma on Wednesday night (arriving just before midnight Arizona time) and got up early Thursday to drive the remaining way to Peoria –…
Welcome Home Dave Freisleben – Part I
March 16, 2014 by Wayne McBrayer & Rebecca Herman The journey began about 16 months ago while researching pictures of Washington Padres cards. I happen to have two of them in my card collection: Dave Hilton and Dave Freisleben. During my research I…
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Posted in At the Ballpark, Padres Players, Padres Throwback Thursday, Spring Training
Posted in At the Ballpark, Padres Players, Padres Throwback Thursday, Spring Training
Padres Non-Roster Spring Training Invitees
January 23, 2014 by Rebecca Herman Josh Byrnes has been busy. Yesterday the Padres announced a seven player deal with the Tampa Bay Rays. We have acquired LHP Alex Torres and RHP Jesse Hahn in exchange for infielders Logan Forsythe and…
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Posted in Just the Facts, Transactions
Posted in Just the Facts, Transactions
Jerry Coleman’s Memorial Service
January 21, 2014 by Rebecca Herman Celebrating the Life of Jerry Coleman And – Oh Doctor! What a life! We arrived at the ballpark early as we expected a crowd and wanted to get in line well in advance of the…
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Posted in At the Ballpark
Posted in At the Ballpark
Memories of Jerry Coleman
January 12, 2014 by Wayne McBrayer Oh, Doctor! Hang a Star on this Hero! This time last Sunday, I was in Las Vegas spending time with family. The Chargers had beaten the Bengals in the Wild Card game and I…
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Posted in At the Ballpark
R.I.P Jerry Coleman 1924-2014
We are deeply saddened to announce that Jerry Coleman passed away today. We mourn the loss of an American hero and a great man. — San Diego Padres (@Padres) January 5, 2014 We will greatly miss The Colonel and offer…
Meet the Right Field Mission
September 20, 2013 By Rebecca Herman and Wayne McBrayer Reflections … Over the many years I have been attending Padres games, I have seen players come and go. During that time, there were several people not playing on the diamond…
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Posted in At the Ballpark, Fan Focus
Meet Padres Pitcher – Burch Smith
September 6, 2013 by Wayne McBrayer with photos by Rebecca Herman On our recent trip to Tucson to see the see the last 3 games of the Tucson Padres, we discussed the players we wanted to interview; two players came to mind –…
Tagged with: 2008 all-district pitcher, 2008 All-East Texas Pitcher, 2009 NCAA National Championship, A+ Lake Elsinore, AA San Antonio, AAA Tucson, Andrew Cashner, Arizona Rookie League, baseball, Burch Smith, Clayton Richard, Howard Jr. College, Kino Veterans Memorial Stadium, Kyle Blanks, Major League Baseball, MiLB, MLB, Nolan Ryan, Padres, Rebecca Herman, Robert E. Lee High School, San Diego, San Diego Padres, Tucson, Tucson Arizona, Tucson Padres, University of Oklahoma, wayne mcbrayer
Posted in On the Farm, Padres Players, Tucson Padres
Posted in On the Farm, Padres Players, Tucson Padres
Padres August Transactions
September 1, 2013 by Rebecca Herman August Summary 15 internal transactions (to/from Tucson) 4 transactions related to the DL 2 free agency signings (Cedeno & Hunt) 1 to restricted list/suspension (Cabrera) 1 designated for assignment then outright to Tucson (O’Sullivan)…
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Posted in Just the Facts, Transactions