There has been a shift within the summer collegiate ranks, as the San Francisco Seals have joined the Great West League. The move takes effect for the 2018 season. (more…)

There has been a shift within the summer collegiate ranks, as the San Francisco Seals have joined the Great West League. The move takes effect for the 2018 season. (more…)
Barring an unlikely series of events, tonight marks the final game at Candlestick Park, built for the San Francisco Giants and now home of the NFL’s 49ers. Jesse Goldberg-Strassler looks back at the historic venue. The New York Giants won the World Series in 1954, drawing over one million fans to the Polo Grounds. Two […]
A recently discovered newsreel shows the state of the post-war Pacific Coast League in 1946, as the eight-team circuit prepped for a move to a major league with legends like Casey Stengel and Lefty O’Doul in the dugouts. After the end of World War II, the minor leagues — which shut down as part of […]
Here’s your hunk of nostalgia for today: an interview with Don Klein, a play-by-play re-creator and the last voice of the San Francisco Seals (Pacific Coast League). Klein re-created games in a Hawaii studio before landing the Seals gig in 1949, calling games at Seals Stadium until the team folded in 1957 upon the arrival […]
The Pacific Coast League announced its 2011 inductions to the PCL Hall of Fame: Former San Francisco Seal Joe Marty, former Sacramento Solon/Mission Red/Portland Beaver John Monroe and former Portland Beaver Elmer Smith. Joseph Anton Marty, born on September 1st, 1913 in Sacramento, California, made his professional baseball debut with the PCL’s San Francisco Seals […]