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Article: Give credit where credit's due.(Editor's Notebook)(San Diego Jack Murphy Stadium)
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- San Diego Business Journal
- Article date:
- March 22, 2004
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When the once-San Diego Stadium was completed some 37 years ago, there were a lot of people who could take credit for its construction--the operative word here being "could."
But before the first fly ball lazily drifted out to a Padres' right fielder, everyone knew that a sportswriter was the ringleader who pushed through the construction of a 45,000-seat, 60-acre $27 million multipurpose stadium in a soggy cow pasture in Mission Valley. From construction worker to banker to Navy admiral, everyone credited San Diego Union sportswriter Jack Murphy as the one person who did it all: cleared the space, poured the cement, parked the cars and most of all rallied the ...