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San Diego, the Padres, and urbanism: A love story

What the history of the Padres' ballparks says about the city

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Brendan Dentino
Apr 01, 2023
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Petco Park, San Diego, CA. Photo by https://unsplash.com/@tjkolesnik.

One of my favorite nights was spent at Petco Park when, on August 25, 2021, the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the San Diego Padres in sixteen innings. The sellout crowd thinned after the Padres didn’t walk it off in the ninth, and by midnight my buddy and I sprawled our bodies across two em…

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