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.
