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Browsing Local History Articles tagged "baseball"
Field of Dreams: Santa Cruz County's Love Affair with Baseball, by
Geoffrey Dunn
1930 was a big year for professional baseball in Santa Cruz. Trying to spur the local economy in the midst ... [Read more]
Heroes and Villains: Santa Cruz County Produced Baseball Stars and Baseball Scandals, by
Jim Johnson
One died a well-respected Hall of Famer. The other died alone and full of regret. Both were major league baseball ... [Read more]
Hometown Hardball: Local Baseball Heroes Went to Big Cities Bring Back Both Pride and Scandal, by
Jim Johnson
Before national league franchises, big-screen television, or $1 million commercials, there was hometown hardball. And, for thirty years, baseball was ... [Read more]
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This short history of the Watsonville Japanese-American Citizens League has been prepared to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the organization's founding in 1934. For fifty of the almost one hundred years that immigrants from Japan and their descendants have lived and worked in the Pajaro Valley, the leadership of that ..." [More]
Excerpted from A Half-Century of Service: The Watsonville Japanese-American Citizens League, 1934-1984 by Sandy Lydon
