History of baseball has to include Marysville
Yes, “The Great Bambino” Babe Ruth, did play in Marysville. Not FOR Marysville but IN Marysville, as part of a barnstorming exipition tour. Along with Lou Gerig and other notables in 1927.
Marysville Ca has always been a part of the Great American Pastime. And was often on scouts itinerary.
Marysville was one of the first cities in the US that had a professional baseball team.
Marysville’s Baseball Teams
1875 Marysville Intrepids – Local League
1883 Marysville Intrepids – California State League
1908 Marysville Giants – Trolley League
1925 Marysville Giants – Sacramento Valley League.
1948 Marysville Braves, Far West League
1950 Marysville Peaches, Far West League
1875 Marysville’s first baseball team were the Intrepids
In 1878, the Intrepids proclaimed themselves as champions of Northern California and traveled to San Francisco to prove it. The result was a 10-0 shellacking at the hands of the Eagles Club.
Mike DePangher was the first and only ballplayer born in Marysville to reach the Major Leagues.
In1890 DePangher returned home to Marysville and in 1891 played one final season with the local Intrepids.
The 1883 California State League was among the earliest of organized baseball leagues in California. The CSL included teams from Marysville, Sacramento, Napa, and the San Francisco.
In 1908, the first Trolley League was formed with teams from Marysville, Gridley, Oroville, and Chico competing. The league folded midway through the season with Marysville running away from the rest of the field.
In 1911, the Marysville Giants proclaimed themselves as Northern California champions when they defeated the Galt Tigers 5-4 in two straight games of a best 2-out-of-3 series.
The 1916 the Marysville Giants would be considered as the greatest team in Yuba-Sutter baseball history.
1923 (.295) and 1924 (.284). In a best 2-of-3 Northern Calif. championship called the Little World Series, Marysville defeated the Isleton Grasshoppers 5-4
In 1925, the Marysville Giants joined the Sacramento Valley League. Other teams in the league included the Colusa Prune Pickers, the Woodland Vets, Willows Tigers, Chico Colts, and the Dixon Firemen.
1926 MARYSVILLE GIANTS–15-4 (17-5) “Pop” Arlett was a one-man wrecking crew as he hit and pitched the Giants to an SVL and Northern California championship. “Pop” also led the Giants in hitting with his .403 average. “Pop” Arlett from Elmhurst, Ca., had previously spent eight years in the minor leagues with a career 46-43 record (1911-1919)
Opened in 1926, the Hotel Marysville attracted everyone from baseball greats Lou Gehrig and Babe Ruth to Hollywood legend Bing Crosby.
1934 MARYSVILLE GIANTS–Manager Stan McLean and his ’34 Giants won the 1st half of SVL play with a 9-2 record, thus earning a spot in the leagues’ championship series.
1936 MARYSVILLE GIANTS–Among the lone bright spots for the ’36 Giants during the 1st half of SLV play was Sacramento’s Norman Coad’s 4-0 no-hitter against Grass Valley.
Bryant Field, still in use today, was once know as one Northern California’s best ballparks, Built in 1937, it was named after long-time-running major leagar, Daniel E. Bryant. The field was the home of the Marysville Giants.
THE FAR WEST LEAGUE (1948-1953) level-D
The 1948 Marysville Braves were a charter member of the newly formed professional Far West League. It marked the first time and along with the ’49 Marysville Braves, the only years that a team from the Yuba-Sutter area has been affiliated with major league baseball. The ’48 and ’49 Marysville Braves were associated with and owned by the Boston Braves of the National League.
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