Expo 2 Padres 1: San Diego's Second Exposition and the First Padres - Softcover

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Deep into the Great Depression, two events changed the face and heartbeat of San Diego. The first was the 1935 Panama-California Exposition at Balboa Park and the other came a year later when the Pacific Coast League Hollywood Stars baseball team relocated to San Diego and became the Padres. Expo 2 Padres 1 continues a story first begun in 1915 as told in the author's historical novel SanDiegoland: When Wonderland took on the World. That was the year of the first exposition, the Panama-California Exposition in Balboa Park. Now, 20 years have passed and Pete Adamson, his wife Grace and son Hank and daughter Althea find their lives intertwined with the Expo and their friends Guey and Ling Lu, owners of two downtown restaurants in San Diego's Chinese district. Pete is the Deputy Superintendent for the City Parks Department, Grace is a reporter for a San Diego newspaper, Hank is a professional baseball player assigned to the Knoxville Smokies and Althea works at San Diego's largest department store. Much to the displeasure of her mother she begins a romantic relationship with the Lu's son, Yong and later Althea's mother has a humbling experience that breaks down her racist attitude toward the Chinese. The reader lives the adventure of San Diego during the Depression and how the Exposition with all its innovations and controversies helped shape the city to what it is today. The story then goes behind the scenes to show how San Diego landed its first professional baseball team when the Hollywood Stars relocated to San Diego and Lane Field was built along the waterfront. In the story, after having helped build the Warren ballpark near Bisbee, Arizona, Pete must decide if he wants to be part of constructing Lane Field. The reader will see what it took to bring a 17-year-old high school phenom to the Padres' roster, a boy by the name of Ted Williams who went on to be a Baseball Hall of Fame player for the Boston Red Sox. As the story unfolds, Pete Adamson's son, Hank moves up the ladder in the minor leagues, a journey that finds him competing for a spot on the Padres team. Throughout the story, the lives of the Lu and Adamson family blend and sometimes clash with experiences that range from comical to near tragedy. Ying Lu, the family matriarch keeps everyone on their toes wondering what will be the next outrageous words to come out of her mouth. Expo 2 Padres 1 is a page-turning journey in the lives of people who strive to be true to their faith, family and friends. For some, their faith is tested to the ultimate, while others, who are not ready to have faith as their foundation struggle to find life’s crucial answers.

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