Santa Barbara, CA
Santa Barbara is located on the Pacific Ocean coast of southern California, 20 miles west of Ventura, CA.
Eddie Mathews, although he was not born in Santa Barbara, went to school there. He worked on his skills on the field at La Cumbre Middle School, and later attended Santa Barbara High School.
The Santa Barbara Foresters, an amateur team, won the 2006 and 2008 National Baseball Congress World Series.
"If Captain Frank Dillon had his way the Superbas would do their spring training in California, in the vicinity of Santa Barbara, next year." - Sporting Life, June 4, 1904
Teams that have played here[edit]
- Santa Barbara Barbareans, Southern California League (1913)
- Santa Barbara Saints, California League (1941-1942)
- Santa Barbara Dodgers, California League (1946-1953, 1964-1967)
- Channel Cities Oilers, California League (1954-1955)
- Santa Barbara Rancheros, California League (1962-1963)
- Santa Barbara Foresters, California Collegiate League (1993-present)
Persons who were born here[edit]
- Brian Asselstine, outfielder
- Dylan Axelrod, pitcher
- Red Barrett, pitcher
- Ryan Church, outfielder
- Mike Colla, minor league pitcher
- Jason Johnson, pitcher
- Gene Lillard, infielder
- Steve Martin, minor league pitcher
- James McCann, catcher
- Jeff McNeil, infielder
- Jesse Orosco, pitcher
- Bill Pertica, pitcher
- Gabe Ribas, minor league pitcher
- Jordan Sechler, minor league pitcher
- Gabe Speier, pitcher
- Ryan Spilborghs, outfielder
- Rob Stratton, minor league outfielder
- Virgil Vasquez, pitcher
- Gary Woods, outfielder
Persons who died here[edit]
- Helen Callaghan, AAGPBL outfielder
- Paul Edmondson, pitcher
- Max Fleischmann, owner
- Mark Harris, author
- Whitey Hensling, minor league pitcher/infielder
- Erv Kantlehner, pitcher
- Don Savidge, pitcher
- Ernest Lawrence Thayer, author
- Lee Thompson, pitcher
- Joe Wilhoit, outfielder
- Carl Zamloch, pitcher
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