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Lot # 177: Rare 1936 San Diego Padres Score Card with Rookie Ted Williams

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Item was in Auction "2023 Fall Access",
which ran from 9/17/2023 7:00 PM to
10/1/2023 10:00 PM



Presented is a rare, 1936 San Diego Padres scorecard for a Pacific Coast League game between the home team Padres and the visiting Oakland Oaks that lists a professional rookie, Ted Williams, in left field for San Diego. The scorecard is printed on card stock and (counting the covers) is eight pages that are attached, and it folds into an easily manageable 7x10.2". The Pacific Coast League was a Class AA League, the highest minor league level at that time. Future Hall of Famer Williams was playing for his hometown team, an affiliate of the Boston Red Sox. The opponents, the Oaks, were an affiliate of the New York Yankees. The program is unscored and undated. Williams was listed as #19 and he was listed as batting third. Hitting directly before Williams in the Padres batting order was another future Hall of Famer, second baseman Bobby Doerr, who was a lifelong friend and fishing partner of the Splendid Splinter. Williams was only 17 years old when he played for the Padres in 1936, and in 109 official at bats he hit .271, with no home runs. Three years later, he was a Major League rookie with the Red Sox, and his power had certainly developed as he crashed 31 homers, drove in 145 runs and hit .327. The great Williams, despite missing the equivalent of about five seasons of playing time while serving in the military as a pilot in two wars, hit 521 home runs and batted .344 lifetime. He was the last man to hit .400 in the Major Leagues when he hit .406 in 1941. Williams was a 2-time MVP and a 2-time AL Triple Crown winner. Bobby Doerr was a Major league rookie with Williams on the 1937 Red Sox. Doerr drove in 100 or more runs for six seasons and led the AL second basemen in fielding four times. He batted .288 lifetime. An interesting note is that Vince DiMaggio, brother of Joltin' Joe, and Dom DiMaggio, (and one of the three Major League DiMaggio players) is also listed in the San Diego line-up, playing center field and hitting eighth. The unscored program shows some toning and darkening, because of the passage of years. There are a few small partial tears at the seams, where the scorecards folds, and a few small stains. Overall, for a scorecard well over eight decades old, the offering is in very good condition and makes a valued remembrance of vintage baseball in the Pacific Coast League, when the minor league Padres had two future Hall of Famers in their line-up.

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