Vic and Carole Salazar celebrated attending their 50th Padres' Opening Day Thursday. The two have never missed a home opener since they started the tradition in 1974. ⚾
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"We've been with the team through the lows, the real lows, the deep lows, and now we're ascending... finally," Vic said. Vic is talking about Padres' Opening Day. Together, the two have made it to 50 of them in a row. Never missing a year since it all started a half-century ago."A streaker ran out of right field towards second base, and Kroc said, 'arrest that man, get him off the field.' And we thought, 'wow, if this is what happens on opening day, we're in, we gotta keep coming back,'" Vic said.
So the tradition was planted and the two always came back, even if it wasn't easy. Despite work, family engagements, and even the unexpected 2020 season. That was year 47. "We were determined to be here at the stadium for opening day so we stood outside the gates, and took our photo to document we were here," Vic said."We had our sign with the number on it.""The opening day of 1987. The first three Padres up at the beginning of the first inning, Marvell Wynne, Tony Gwynn and John Kruk," Vic said."They were back-to-back-to-back home runs and it had never been done in baseball history.
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