Dick Williams guided the Padres to their first World Series. The next year, three of his players had been voted into the All-Star Game’s starting lineup — Steve Garvey, Graig Nettles and Tony Gwynn — when San Diego’s skipper tapped LaMarr Hoyt as his starting pitcher for the Midsummer Classic on this date — July 16 — in 1985. When the NL’s starting catcher, Gary Carter, was scratched with an injury, Williams asked his own Terry Kennedy to fill in.
Some eyebrows raised.
Not Williams’ counterpart from Detroit.
“Nobody should even question it,” said Tigers manager Sparky Anderson, who beat the Padres in the World Series the previous fall.