Highlights include side trips to Mexico City and South Korea, which the Frequent Friars also attended
With a table full of pictures laid out in front of him, San Diego resident Tom Welborn picked up one photo in particular and reflected on the start of a very special streak.Welborn is showing a photo taken in 1998 that shows him with his then-4-month-old son, John, attending a Padres home game at Qualcomm Stadium.Sign up for NBC San Diego's News Headlines newsletter.
"Mexico City was really fun," Tom said."The Seoul series was amazing — everyone got one of these," he added, holding up some swag given to everyone in attendance in Korea."The food was amazing," Tom said."The beer was $2 a can in the stadium, and they would sell you six-packs. I bought a couple of six-packs for ... I think it was $13, and I was throwing beers to Padre fans.
"We don't know if we're the first," Tom said."That wasn't the goal of it. The goal was just father-son bonding, traveling to see the Padres play." Thirty teams, more than 30 stadiums, 20 years of Padres pictures, and after all those times at all those ballparks, we gotta know: What is their favorite MLB stadium?
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