The Stockton Mariners were a One-Year Wonder that played in Minor League Baseball’s Class A California League during the summer of 1978. During a postseason franchise and affiliation shuffle, the Stockton club changed hands and went back to the city’s traditional “Stockton Ports” identity prior to the 1979 California League season.
California League (1962-1976) Born: 1962 Displaced: October 1976 – The Bees are displaced by the arrival of Class AAA baseball in San Jose First Game: April
Pacific Coast League (1977-1978) California League (1979-1981) Born: October 1976 – The Sacramento Solons relocate to San Jose, CA Affiliation Change: 1982 (San Jose Expos)
The Modesto Reds were a Class A minor league baseball team in the California League from 1966 to 1974. Contrary to what you might expect, the Reds were not a farm club of the Cincinnati Reds. Rather “Reds” was a traditional name for Modesto ball clubs, dating back to the original Reds of the California State League (1914-1915) and a prior Postwar incarnation of the Reds that operated from 1946-1961.
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