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MARIN TENNIS LEGEND Tam High Promotes Official to Top Post Today’s web bonus » Media Center photos and videos. marinij.com DON’T MISS OUT: NOVATO FALL ARTS BASEBALL Pub patio All the A’s lose PLAN YOUR FUN Check out our online calendar solution don’t-miss ground for upcoming concerts, art upsets events to Astros exhibits and meetings! residents in Marin in AL West VISIT EVENTS. EVENTS.MARINIJ.COM Local » A3 Lifestyles » B1 Sports » C1 P.M. SUN High:76 Low:53 » PAGE C8 Thursday, August 30, 2018 $1.50 FACEBOOK.COM/MARINIJFAN TWITTER.COM/MARINIJ marinij.com » SAN RAFAEL Pacifics’ owners put team up for sale A San Rafael Minor league baseball club’s future in Marin uncertain Pacifics baseball player the club’s ownership group, told unanimously agreed to put the warms up near By Danny Schmidt [email protected] the Independent Journal on club up for sale, he said. Albert Field’s @therealdschmidt on Twitter Wednesday that they don’t have “It’s a funny business,” said scoreboard. any potential buyers and are not Shapiro, the mastermind behind After seven seasons, the San setting a price. The market will the club’s zany promotions. “It Rafael Pacifics minor league dictate the sales price, Shapiro tires you out. It’s a year-round baseball team is up for sale, own- said. business and we’ve been banging ers announced Wednesday. The ownership group — Shap- it out for seven years. We’ve done Mike Shapiro, president and iro, Sobel, Eugene Lupario, Steve a lot of good for a lot of people. ALAN DEP — MARIN general manager, and Brian So- Allen, Stephanie Plante, Leslie “It’s been a good run.” INDEPENDENT bel, two of the seven people in Lava and Leonard Weingarten — PACIFICS » PAGE 4 JOURNAL, FILE MILL VALLEY DISTRICT MARIN TENNIS LEGEND Tam High promotes official to top post By Keri Brenner [email protected] @KeriWorks on Twitter In a move that could save Tamal- pais Union High School District at least one full administrator’s salary and months of recruiting and interim staff costs, the dis- trict’s board of trustees has opted to promote from within to fill the vacant superinten- dent’s post. Tara Taupier, an assistant superin- tendent in charge of educational ser- vices in the district, was appointed su- perintendent, ef- Taupier fective on Tuesday. Taupier, 49, of No- vato, has been with the district since 2002. She will earn $225,000 annually, and will absorb her prior duties in TAM » PAGE 2 PHOTOS BY ALAN DEP — MARIN INDEPENDENT JOURNAL DISASTERS Vic Seixas holds his 1953 Wimbledon trophy at The Club at Harbor Point in Mill Valley. The 94-year-old is the oldest living Grand Slam singles champion. Bill protects Oldest living Grand Slam consumers singles champ turns 95 from PG&E fessional tennis on every con- By Danny Schmidt rate hikes [email protected] tinent. His resume includes Wimbledon, U.S. Open singles @therealdschmidt on Twitter By George Avalos and doubles, Australian Open Bay Area News Group New to tennis, a 10-year-old doubles, French Open doubles Vic Seixas entered a local men’s and Davis Cup titles. He com- State legislation designed to tournament in Philadelphia. He piled an 801-236 overall record, curb efforts by PG&E and other won his first-round match, beat- capturing 49 singles titles and utility behemoths to saddle con- ing Sam Pruitt, who was more reaching as high as No. 3 in the sumers with costs triggered by a than twice his age. world. power company’s negligence has Pruitt, disgusted after losing Now, the 1971 International been approved by the Legislature to a preteen, threw his rackets Tennis Hall of Fame inductee and sent to Gov. Jerry Brown. in the closet and vowed to quit resides in Marin County, which Vic Seixas stands in front of a painting of himself at The Club at SB 819, authored by state Sen. playing forever. he’s called home for nearly three Harbor Point in Mill Valley. Jerry Hill, would prohibit big util- Twenty years later, after Seixas decades. He’ll celebrate his 95th ities such as PG&E from passing won Wimbledon, Pruitt reached birthday surrounded by friends Staying humble Trabert — and the ensuing pa- along to ratepayers — in the form into his closet and dusted off his at Harbor Point. Growing up, Seixas often rade thrown for the pair in New of higher monthly gas and electric- rackets. “He’s kind of the mayor (of helped his father, who worked York, Seixas ran into a journey- ity bills — costs that result from the “He said, ‘That wasn’t such a Harbor Point),” said Tori Seixas, in the plumbing-supply busi- man plumber he knew through company’s negligence. bad loss after all,’” Seixas, who Vic’s daughter, who works at the ness, one he planned to join af- his father in Philadelphia. The In recent months, PG&E has turns 95 on Thursday, fondly re- Bay Club San Francisco. “Ev- ter he retired from tennis. Seixas plumber asked where Seixas had embarked on a crusade, led by its called from The Club at Harbor erybody knows who he is and would be gone for extended pe- been and was dumbfounded to chief executive officer Geisha Wil- Point in Mill Valley. comes up and says ‘hi.’ He has a riods, playing in tournaments hear Australia. liams, to pressure politicians in Seixas, the oldest living really great community at Har- across the globe. “What were you doing there?” PG&E » PAGE 2 Grand Slam singles champion bor Point and all around this After his three-month trip he asked. — “I’d rather be the young- area. It’s been a great place for to Australia for the 1954 Davis “Playing tennis,” answered Bill raises age to buy est,” he cracked — played pro- him.” Cup — which he won with Tony SEIXAS » PAGE 2 long guns/A4 SERVICE AGREEMENTS BUSINESS ONLINE Crowds brave heat Canada stunned about U Dow Jones We’ve got a new look -- to honor McCain Trump trade threats 26,124.57 (+60.55) check our new website Former military members in About 75 percent of Canada’s U S&P 500 We’ve revamped our online shorts and T-shirts stopped exports go to the U.S. so the 2914.04 (+16.52) site to make it easier for you and saluted the closed casket. tariff threat looms large. Nasdaq to find what you’re looking for; PAGE A8 PAGE A9 U 8109.69 (+79.65) check us out. MARINIJ.COM INDEX Obituaries .......A9 Opinion ...........A11 Movies .............B5 TV ....................B6 Sports ..............C1 Classifieds ......C6 Volume 157, issue 161 0 40901 29001 8.
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