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The Fake Game That Became Real | San Diego Padres News
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In 1981, with baseball on pause due to a strike, San Diego turned a parking lot into a Fourth of July spectacle by staging a minor-league game between the Redwood Pioneers and the Reno Padres — complete with fireworks, watermelon, Coca-Cola, and a $1 ticket price that funded the Special Olympics. The crowd went wild, packing in over 37,000 fans, and even the San Diego Chicken showed up for fun. But the man behind the idea didn’t get the credit he deserved — a Sports Illustrated article later blamed someone else, leaving the real visionary in the shadows.
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