In spite of the fact the Gulls' roster featured 14 future Major League Baseball players in their lone year, Ventura County did not make the playoffs; instead, they lost a tiebreaker to the Visalia Oaks.
In early 1985, Ventura County natives and former Major League ballplayers Ken McMullen and Jim Colborn, along with an erstwhile mortician named Jim Biby, acquired an option to purchase and relocate the dormant Crushers franchise for the 1986 season.
Their plan was to build a 3,000-seat econo park in Camarillo, an hour north of Los Angeles.
McMullen and Co. ended up obtaining the Crushers for $125,0001 although the ballpark project fell through where they were forced to seek temporary accommodations at Ventura College’s baseball stadium, which had no lights and prohibited the sale of alcohol, therefore all 72 Ventura County Gulls home games were afternoon matinees.
All players are listed in alphabetical order by their surname, with the year they played for the Ventura County Gulls in parentheses.