History


* Founded in 1988, the team spent the first fourteen years known as the Sacramento Athletics. 

2009

Head Coach: Brant Cummings

Pioneers join the West Coast League: Tri-State

2008

Head Coach: Brant Cummings

Final Record: 18-17
            * New Record for Wins in a Season
            * First Winning Record in Franchise History
            * First Playoff Berth in Franchise History

Pioneers are recognized and later drop affiliation with the Sierra Baseball League

2007

Head Coach: Mike Carter

Final Record: 11-20-1
            * New Record for Wins in a Season

The fourth season of Pioneer baseball will bring an organizational change to the Pioneer staff. Mike Carter (2000 Folsom High graduate), who joined the Pioneer team as a catcher in the 2004 inaugural season, will replace Gregor Wakefield as general manager and owner of the team.

Pioneers join Sacramento Rural League

Folsom Pioneers official mascot "Mike the Miner" debuts

June 3rd - First game held in Folsom, Ca

2006

Head Coach: Gregor Wakefield

Final Record: 4-8-1

2005

Head Coach: Gregor Wakefield

Final Record: 2-13

2004

Head Coach: Gregor Wakefield

Team changes name from Sacramento Athletics to Folsom Pioneers. The vision is to bring a summer collegiate baseball (semi-pro) franchise to Folsom, California. With talent comparable to the Cape Cod Baseball League or the Northwoods League.

2003

1999

Sacramento Athletics shared the California State Championship with the Sacramento Cardinals.   Although this qualified the team to move on to the Western Regional, the team made the decision to bypass the Regional and travel to Nevada for the US Open National Championship.  There, the team played well but lost in a semifinal game and finished third. 

1995

Sacramento Athletics join the NorCal Semipro Conference in order to compete against the Nation's best semipro teams. 

1988

Sacramento Athletics formed


1916

Semi-Pro baseball comes to Folsom as Brother’s College plays convicts from Folsom Prison.










1930

“ In this city of 3,000 [Folsom] two-thirds of the population eat, sleep, drink, think and talk about nothing but baseball during the season.” wrote Jack Montgomery in Baseball Magazine

1943

Annual game between Major Leaguers and convicts at Folsom Prison was suspended after two prisoners had escaped. Temporarily ending semi-pro baseball in Folsom.













2007

Folsom Pioneers bring semi-pro baseball back to Folsom.

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