Category: Western Baseball League 1995

Mission Viejo Vigilantes Western Baseball League

Mission Viejo Vigilantes

January 20, 2021

The Vigilantes were a short-lived independent baseball team that moved from Long Beach to Mission Viejo in 1997 in pursuit of a proposed $6M 4,500-seat new baseball stadium. Meanwhile, the Vigilantes set up shop at a temporarily upgraded diamond on the campus of Saddleback College. The ballpark project never got off the ground, leading to an exchange of lawsuits between Vigilantes ownership and the city of Mission Viejo and the demise of the team after two seasons.

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1999 Sacramento Steelheads program from the Western Baseball League

Sacramento Steelheads

January 7, 2021

The Sacramento Steelheads were an independent professional baseball team that existed for only season in the California capital before getting displaced by the return of Class AAA baseball to the city in the year 2000. The 1999 Steelheads set up shop on the campus of Sacramento City College. The team played one season in the six-team Western Baseball League, competing against teams from California, Nevada, Utah and Washington. They finished in last place with a 36-54 record.

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Sonoma County Crushers Western Baseball League

Sonoma County Crushers

October 9, 2020

The Sonoma County Crushers were an independent pro baseball outfit that enjoyed a relatively long run of eight years by indy ball standards. In fact, the Crushers were the only franchise in the Western Baseball League that hung in there for all eight seasons of the league’s existence from 1995 through 2002. The Crushers played in Rohnert Park, California, a planned community of 40,000 located about 50 miles north of San Francisco.

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Salinas Peppers

June 17, 2020

Western Baseball League (1995-1997) Born: 1994 – WBL founding franchise Ceased Operations (Salinas): January 1998 Franchise Moved: 1998 (Zion Pioneerzz) First Game: May 19, 1995 (L 8-7

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Tri-City Posse Western Baseball League

Tri-City Posse

June 16, 2020

The Tri-City Posse were an independent minor league baseball team that represented the cities of Kennewick, Pasco and Richland, Washington during the late 1990’s. Tri-City was a fixture in the Class A Northwest League from the mid-1950’s until mid mid-80’s. But when the Posse rode into town in 1995 to set up shop at the just-completed Tri-Cities Stadium, the region had been without pro baseball for nearly a decade.

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