Albert L. Anderson; San Diego Booster

Albert L. Anderson, 74, a San Diego booster who helped bring professional sports teams and the Wild Animal Park to the region. A children’s dentist, Anderson was chairman of the sports committee of the San Diego Chamber of Commerce. He helped lure the National Football League’s Chargers from Los Angeles to San Diego in 1961 and helped bring baseball’s Padres to town in 1969. In 1970, Anderson chaired a citizens committee to plan the 1,800-acre San Diego Wild Animal Park in the San Pasqual Valley. He also lobbied for San Diego as host of the 1996 Republican National Convention. On Tuesday in San Diego of a blood clot.