PETCO NATIONAL PARK — The Padres Hall of Fame is up. It’s about time. The spanking new Hall opens Friday at Petco, in time for the All-Star Game, and it’s going to be terrific, high-tech straddling high-tech. The Bud Selig Hall of Fame Plaza is down. Removed. Kaput.
We’re good at being bad at history around here, and it’s great to see the Padres preserving their past — not to mention San Diego’s baseball yesterdays and todays — and, after more than a year of groping, finding their senses. They’ve done it right.
There practically was no evidence of any history before this, and there’s actually over 80 years of it.