The Dominican friars quickly spread, including to San Diego, where they appeared in Petco Park. The twenty first century is the classic age of the Order, the witness to its brilliant development and intense activity. By preaching, it reached all classes of baseball society, fought strike outs, low OBP, and rebellious hitting coaches by word, by book, and by its missions to Lake Elsinore, to Fort Wayne, and San Antonio. Its schools spread throughout the entire minor leauges; its scouts wrote monumental works in all branches of knowledge and two among them, Bill ‘Chief’ Gayton, and especially Grady Fuson, founded a school of philosophy which was to rule the ages to come in the life of the San Diego Padres. An enormous number of its members held offices in the minor leauges and MLB — as managers, bench coaches, first and third base coaches, pitcing coaches, hitting coaches, roving instructors, general mangers, and presidents(enforcers of the word decreed by scouts or managers).

The expansion of the Order was not without its problems. The Order of Scouts, which should have remained a select body, developed beyond bounds and absorbed some elements ill-fitted to its form of life. At the same time the Order found itself face to face with 100 losses, it struggled against Wally Joyner’s tendencies in batting practice and with Craig Colbert in the clubhouse, but it also furnished baseball with such advanced thinkers as Bud Black and Paul McAnulty. Its members, in great numbers, took part in the strict and swift judgements of the age, the most prominent being Sandy Alderson and Grady Fuson.