Soldiers with Mormon Battalion were the first Padres? - U-T San Diego

Soldiers with Mormon Battalion were the first Padres? U-T San Diego In a note to Swank, Bigler speculated that “the Mormon Battalion's members hailed from virtually every state in the Union at that time and any one of them could have taught the rest how to play baseball.” Coincidentally, on March 6, 1847, troops from ... and more »