The California League is a Minor League Baseball league that operates in California. Having been classified at various levels throughout its existence,it operated at Class A-Advanced from 1990 until its demotion to Single-A following Major League Baseball's 2021 reorganization of the minor leagues. The league temporarily operated for the 2021 season as the Low-A West before reassuming its original moniker in 2022.
Visalia is a city in the agricultural San Joaquin Valley of California. The population was 141,384 as per the 2020 census. Visalia is the fifth-largest city in the San Joaquin Valley,the 40th most populous in California,and 192nd in the United States. As the county seat of Tulare County,Visalia serves as the economic and governmental center to one of the most productive agricultural counties in the country.
Benjamin Franklin Norris Jr. was an American journalist and novelist during the Progressive Era,whose fiction was predominantly in the naturalist genre. His notable works include McTeague:A Story of San Francisco (1899),The Octopus:A Story of California (1901) and The Pit (1903).
General Sherman is a giant sequoia tree located at an elevation of 2,109 m (6,919 ft) above sea level in the Giant Forest of Sequoia National Park in Tulare County,in the U.S. state of California. By volume,it is the largest known living single-stem tree on Earth.
Levi Strauss was a German-born American businessman who founded the first company to manufacture blue jeans. His firm of Levi Strauss &Co. (Levi's) began in 1853 in San Francisco,California.
KTIP is a radio station broadcasting a News Talk Information format. Licensed to Porterville,California,United States,the station serves the Visalia-Tulare area. The station is owned by Jose Arredondo,through licensee JA Ventures,Inc.,and features programming from Fox News Radio,Premiere Radio Networks and Salem Communications.
Robert William Armstrong was an American film and television actor remembered for his role as Carl Denham in the 1933 version of King Kong by RKO Pictures. He delivered the film's famous final line:"It wasn't the airplanes. It was beauty killed the beast."
Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery in San Antonio,Texas. Administered by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs,it encompasses 154.7 acres (62.6 ha),and as of 2014,had over 144,000 interments. The cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016.
Holy Cross Cemetery is a Roman Catholic cemetery in Colma,California,operated by the Archdiocese of San Francisco. Established in 1887 on 300 acres (1.2 km2),it is one of the oldest and largest cemeteries in California.
Joseph "Joe Iron Man" Ardizzone was an Italian-born early Los Angeles mobster,who became the first Boss of the Los Angeles crime family. He was involved in a long-standing feud with the Matranga family. He once claimed to have killed 30 men.
Visalia,California,commonly known in the 1850s as Four Creeks,is the oldest continuously inhabited inland European settlement between Stockton and Los Angeles. The city played an important role in the American colonization of the San Joaquin Valley as the county seat of Old Tulare County,an expansive region comprising most if not all of modern-day Fresno,Kings,and Kern counties.
The Mason Henry Gang were bandits operating in Central and Southern California in 1864–1865. As the Civil War was in progress,they were able to pose as Confederate Partisan Rangers,and their original mission was to rid the area of (anti-slavery) Republicans. But when it became clear that the Confederate cause was lost,they turned to outlawry,plundering and killing without mercy.
The California Digital Newspaper Collection (CDNC) is a freely-available,archive of digitized California newspapers;it is accessible through the project's website. The collection contains over six million pages from over forty-two million articles. The project is part of the Center for Bibliographical Studies and Research (CBSR) at the University of California Riverside.
Albert Etter (1872–1950) was an American plant breeder best known for his work on strawberry and apple varieties.
The California Nursery Company was established in Niles,California,and incorporated in 1884 by John Rock,R.D. Fox,and others. The nursery sold fruit trees,nut trees,ornamental shrubs and trees,and roses. It was responsible for introducing new hybrids created by such important West Coast breeders as Luther Burbank and Albert Etter.
Charles Howard Shinn (1852–1924) was a horticulturalist,author,inspector of California Experiment Stations,and forest ranger in California.
Simmons Island is a small island in Grizzly Bay in the San Francisco Bay Area of California. It is part of Solano County,and included within Reclamation District 2127. Its coordinates are 38°05′49″N121°59′26″W. It is shown as "Simmons Island" on an 1850 survey map of the San Francisco Bay area made by Cadwalader Ringgold,and as "Simons Island" on an 1854 map of the area by Henry Lange. It is labeled,along with Deadman Island,Joice Island,Grizzly Island,Ryer Island and Roe Island,on a 1902 USGS map of the area.
Walter Kendall McCormick was an American football player who played at the center and linebacker positions. He played college football for Washington and USC and professional football for the San Francisco 49ers.
Edward Robertson,better known as Eddie Roberts,was an American Welterweight/Middleweight boxer,actor and a World War I,World War II and Korean War veteran who competed from 1922 to 1931. He held the title of Pacific Northwest Welterweight Champion and was a serious contender for the World Welterweight championship in 1926–1927.
