San Diego's First Padres and "The Kid": The Story of the Remarkable 1936 San Diego Padres and Ted Williams' Professional Baseball Debut (2019) pb, authored by journalists Tom Larwin, Carlos Bauer, Dan Boyle, Frank Meyers, and Larry Zuckerman, tells the story of the remarkable first San Diego Padres team formed in 1936. That team turned out to be not only an interesting ballclub, but also a very good one. Two of its players - Bobby Doerr and Ted Williams, aka "The Kid," became members of the National Baseball Hall of Fame.

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