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Since the mid-to-late 1930s, a minor-league baseball team named the San Diego Padres played in the Pacific Coast League (PCL) and won several championships. A decade after local businessman C. Arnholdt Smith purchased the club during the mid-1950s, city voters approved a multimillion-dollar bond issue to finance the construction of San Diego Stadium for the Padres and also National Football League (NFL) Chargers.
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See Frank P. Jozsa Jr., Major League Baseball Expansions and Relocations: A History, 1876–2008 (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2009), and James Quirk and Rodney D. Fort, Pay Dirt: The Business of Professional Team Sports (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1992).
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Each MLB team has a franchise timeline. For information and data in this chapter it is http://www.sandiego.padres.mlb.com.
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Two sources to research are the Official Major League Baseball Fact Book 2005 Edition (St. Louis, MO: Sporting News, 2005) and “Teams,” http://www.baseball-reference.com cited 28 January 2015.
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“Ron Fowler, Executive Chairman,” http://www.sandiego.padres.mlb.com cited 9 August 2015.
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References for financial information in the two studies are “The Business of Baseball,” http://www.forbes.com cited 28 January 2015 and “Major League Baseball Valuations,” http://www.bloomberg.com cited 2 February 2015.
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Paul Swaney, “2014 MLB Ballpark Experience Rankings,” http://www.stadiumjourney.com cited 23 February 2015.
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Barry Janoff, “Report: When It Comes to 2014 MLB Fans, the Most Loyal Group is the Cards,” http://www.nysportsjournalism.com cited 23 February 2015.
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Business articles about the Padres organization include David Broughton, “Padres Rank Highest in Mystery Shopper Survey,” SportsBusiness Journal (23 May 2011): 6, and Bill Sutton, “How One Franchise is Making Membership More Meaningful,” SportsBusiness Journal (8 October 2012): 11.
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Jozsa, F.P. (2016). San Diego Padres. In: National League Franchises: Team Performances Inspire Business Success . SpringerBriefs in Economics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25993-2_14
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