Stockton Ports

The team plays its home games at Banner Island Ballpark which opened in 2005 and seats over 5,000 people.

That same team also gained a bit of notoriety as a possible inspiration for "Casey at the Bat", a famous baseball poem by Ernest Thayer.

Thayer was a journalist for the San Francisco Examiner at the time and the games were hosted in a ballpark on Banner Island, a place once known as Mudville.

[1] Owned by Stockton local Carl W. Thompson, Sr. (1971–1973), the Ports disbanded after the 1972 season, coming back as an affiliate of the Seattle Mariners in 1978.

In 2005, the Ports moved to the newly built Banner Island Ballpark and became affiliates of the Oakland Athletics.