NorCal History

The Route from School Ball to Summer Clubs

The Route from School Ball to Summer Clubs points back to a baseball culture built from school seasons, wood-bat summers, municipal parks, and towns...

How a Local Schedule Becomes a Historical Record

How a Local Schedule Becomes a Historical Record reads like a page from a regional baseball ledger, where the useful story sits between the...

College Scouts and the Junior College Baseball Route

College Scouts and the Junior College Baseball Route is the kind of local baseball subject that does not fit cleanly into a major-league frame....

Old Box Scores, New Readers, and Regional Baseball Memory

Old Box Scores, New Readers, and Regional Baseball Memory starts with the geography of Northern California baseball: old rail towns, Bay Area neighborhoods, Valley...

Fresno State Notes from a College Baseball Notebook

Fresno State Notes from a College Baseball Notebook works best as a historical note: not nostalgia for its own sake, but a way to...

Jackie Jensen Notes for a Regional Baseball Reader

Jackie Jensen Notes for a Regional Baseball Reader points back to a baseball culture built from school seasons, wood-bat summers, municipal parks, and towns...

Archive Clippings from a Bay Area Sandlot Season

Archive Clippings from a Bay Area Sandlot Season reads like a page from a regional baseball ledger, where the useful story sits between the...

Sacramento Solons Echoes in Local Club Culture

Sacramento Solons Echoes in Local Club Culture is the kind of local baseball subject that does not fit cleanly into a major-league frame. It...

Oakland Oaks Memories and the Shape of Bay Area Baseball

Oakland Oaks Memories and the Shape of Bay Area Baseball starts with the geography of Northern California baseball: old rail towns, Bay Area neighborhoods,...