Current
Season
Team
History
All-Time Leaders Batting
Pitching
League Championship Titles: 1927,
1931, 1932, 1934, 1938
Ballpark: Moreing Park
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Moreing Park Opened:
1922 Capacity: 12,000
Riverside Boulevard and Broadway,
Sacramento, California |
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Factors
AVG overall .991
LHB .997, RHB .988
Doubles 1.010
Triples 1.035
HR overall .915
LHB .953, RHB .895
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Distances/wall heights
Left Field line 330 ft./20 ft.
Left Field 353 ft./20 ft.
Left-Center Field 377 ft./20 ft.
Center Field 436 ft./20 ft.
Right-Center 371 ft./20 ft.
Right Field 345 ft./10 ft.
Right Field line 330 ft./10 ft. |
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In the Redux
In addition to their five Pacific Coast League
championships, the Solons own four World
Championships, winning the World Series in 1931,
1932, 1934, and 1938. The Solons also made
postseason appearances in 1929 and 1933.
Real-life history
Sacramento has hosted professional baseball teams
as far back as the 1880’s. From 1900-1902, the
city had an entry in the California League, the
forerunner of the PCL; the team was known
alternatively as the Senators and the Gilt Edges.
As the Sacramento Solons, they were charter
members of the PCL in 1903; during this season
they were also referred to as the Senators or the
Sacts. The team failed to draw, and moved to
Tacoma in 1904, where they were known as the
Tigers. Their time in Tacoma was both short and
eventful: they took the flag in ’04, won the first
half of a split-season in ’05, and were back in
Sacramento by the end of the 1905 campaign,
finishing a game under .500 and then losing the
post-season series to Los Angeles.
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The Solons of 1942, the year they won
their first and last PCL Championship. |
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In 1906 the team tried its luck as the Fresno
Raisin Eaters. Failing to draw there as well, they
moved back to Sacramento but dropped out of the
PCL to play in the independent California League,
at the time an all-Northern California loop. They
returned to the PCL three years later, more or
less officially adopting the name the Sacramento
Sacts, but by 1914 attendance was so dismal the
club moved to San Francisco in mid-season to
compete with the Seals as the Mission Wolves. This
too was a failure and the franchise took off for
Salt Lake City after the season.
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This rather manic fellow seems inspired
by Warner Bros. cartoons of the ’40s… |
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...while this four-limbed edifice bears
an obvious family resemblance to the Oaks’
Li’l Acorn (both mascots were created by
the Oakland Tribune’s Lee Susman). |
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It didn’t take long for the PCL to return to the
City of Trees, and a new franchise was awarded in
in 1918. This team, known as the Senators, was
purchased by Branch Rickey in 1935 and renamed the
Solons. As a Cardinals farm club, they finally won
a pennant in 1942. Although they had other strong
finishes, the 1942 flag was to be their only one.
The Solons drew reasonably well until Major
League Baseball moved to California in 1958.
Unable to compete with the Giants, the club moved
to Honolulu in 1961. Since then two distinct PCL
franchises have called Sacramento home, including
the current Sacramento River Cats. The old Solons
franchise that had relocated to Hawaii is still in
existence, known today as the Colorado Springs Sky
Sox.
Sacramento Solons Uniform History
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1921 Home
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1922-1929 Home
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1930-1932 Home
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1933-1936 Home
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1937-1939 Home
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1921 Away
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1922-1929 Away
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1930-1932 Away
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1933-1936 Away
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1937-1939 Away
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1940-1941 Home
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1942-1945 Home
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1940-1941 Away
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1942-1945 Away
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