San Diego Padres Birth Card: The King of Diamonds

The first game, not a birthday

The San Diego Padres birth card on this site is the King of Diamonds. That mapping uses the Baseball-Reference first MLB game for the franchise now known as the San Diego Padres: April 8, 1969. On that day the club was the San Diego Padres. Later city moves and name changes do not reset the coordinate. A player date of birth does not set it either.

Baseball-Reference first-game row

BBRef lists this franchise from 1969 (team code SDP that season; current code SDP). The first regular-season box is 1969-04-08 vs Houston Astros (San Diego Stadium). We keep the current marketing name San Diego Padres.

Wikipedia’s MLB teams table is a year cross-check only. The table cell reads “1969” and mentions the first-game year 1969. No Wikipedia day is used, and no date on this page was invented to fill a hole. Retrosheet’s first-season game log corroborates the same calendar day.

How April 8 becomes the King of Diamonds

solar_value = 55 − (2 × month + day); if solar_value ≤ 0 the coordinate is the Joker (December 31 only). Deck order is 1 = Ace of Hearts through 52 = King of Spades. For April 8, month = 4 and day = 8, so solar_value = 55 − (2 × 4 + 8) = 39. Slot 39 in that deck is the King of Diamonds (K♦).

The card is a position on a calendar, the same way a longitude is a position on a globe. It does not say the San Diego Padres “are” a personality, and it does not predict a season.

Published meaning of the King of Diamonds

The live meaning page /birth-card/king-of-diamonds names this coordinate “The Wealthy King.” That copy is written for a person born on this month and day. Quoted here, it describes the coordinate — not a reading of the franchise.

You run the system and you can show your work.

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Same-card siblings

San Diego Padres is one of the 1969 April 8 expansion quartet (Kansas City Royals, Milwaukee Brewers, San Diego Padres, Washington Nationals). All four share the King of Diamonds.

Exact same first-game calendar day: Kansas City Royals, Milwaukee Brewers, Washington Nationals.

Same birth-card coordinate (including different first-game days that collapse to the same solar value): Kansas City Royals, Milwaukee Brewers, Washington Nationals.

San Diego Padres on the record

The San Diego Padres are an American professional baseball team based in San Diego. The Padres compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the National League (NL) West Division. The team plays its home games at Petco Park in downtown San Diego. Founded in 1969 as an expansion franchise, the Padres adopted their name from the Pacific Coast League (PCL) team that arrived in San Diego in 1936. The name, Spanish for "fathers", honors the friars of the Franciscan order who founded Mission San Diego de Alcalá in 1769. In 1976, Randy Jones achieved the first Cy Young Award for the Padres. In the 1980s, Tony Gwynn became a major star, winning eight National League batting titles. Under manager Dick Williams, the Padres clinched their first NL pennant, only to lose to the Detroit Tigers in the 1984 World Series in 5 games. In 1995, Kevin Towers became general manager; under his lead, Ken Caminiti became the first Padres player to win the MVP Award. The Padres achieved their second NL pennant alongside Trevor Hoffman, only to be swept by the New York Yankees in the 1998 World Series. The Padres are owned by José E. Feliciano & Kwanza Jones, who have owned the team starting in 2026.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article San Diego Padres (CC BY-SA 4.0). Nothing here was written for this page beyond that article. The franchise first-game date comes from Baseball-Reference and Retrosheet, not from this article.

FAQ

What is the San Diego Padres birth card?

The King of Diamonds, from the BBRef first MLB game April 8, 1969 (solar value 39).

Does a relocation change the birth card?

No. The first MLB game for the San Diego Padres stays with the club. San Diego Padres still maps from 1969-04-08.

Where does this date come from?

Baseball-Reference franchise first-season schedule, corroborated by the Retrosheet first-season game log, retrieved 2026-09-06. Wikipedia years are a cross-check only.

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If you want the personal report rather than a franchise first-game coordinate, the existing $9 Birth Card Deep Dive checkout is unchanged. This page only adds utm_source=mlb and utm_content=san-diego-padres.