Tag: Rohnert Park Stadium

Redwood Pioneers California League Baseball

Redwood Pioneers

November 14, 2020

The Redwood Pioneers were a minor league baseball outfit based in the small planned community of Rohnert Park, California. The California League club arrived from Santa Clara in 1980. Original team owner Thomas Leonard signed a 10-year lease with Rohnert Park civic officials which included an “initials clause”.  The clause stated that the team must use the initials “R-P” in its name for the term of the lease. Thus the name Redwood Pioneers stood as a rather confounding and indirect tribute to the ball club’s host community of Rohnert Park.

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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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