The Padres averaged 95 losses during Johnny Grubb’s tenure with the club and twice eclipsed the century mark. Needless to say, the 25-year-old outfielder hadn’t been party to a whole lot of festive ballparks when he was San Diego’s lone representative on this date — July 23 — in the 1974 All-Star Game at Pittsburgh’s Three Rivers Stadium.
“I was excited and a little scared,” Grubb told the San Diego Union after the NL’s 7-2 win. “I’ve never been in this kind of baseball atmosphere before.”
Grubb made it to his first and only Midsummer Classic by hitting .