Local authors chronicle area’s unique baseball history

Aug. 20, 2019 – Discover 805

It’s 1912, and thousands of sports fans fill the stands to watch an exhibition game between the New York Giants and the Chicago White Sox.

This might sound like any Major League Baseball game being played at a stadium in the big city, but this match actually took place at a baseball field right in the heart of Oxnard!

This memorable game is just one of several stories by local author Jeffrey Wayne Maulhardt in Baseball in Ventura and The Day the New York Giants Came to Oxnard.

Along with Mexican American Baseball in the Central Coast by Richard A. Santillan, these books are part of a must-read collection for anyone interested in the early history of baseball in the 805 region.

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