Yolo High Wheelers moving to Marysville
  • yolohw
    20
    https://www.davisenterprise.com/sports/high-wheelers-leaving-davis-after-one-season/article_bf10a70a-a943-11ef-b105-3f09079986ed.html

    The article also references the installation of lights at Dobbins Stadium.

    I've seen Bryant Field in Marysville. This is not an upgrade. Still I recall they had ok attendance there for the Feather River Mudcats and the Yuba-Sutter Gold Sox until the Golden Baseball League folded.

    According to Wikipedia the much-despised current A's president Dave Kaval founded the Golden League as a business school class project at Stanford.

    Kind of stupid the High Wheelers laid off all those front office people. Like none of them would be willing to move/commute. They should change the team name as High Wheeler makes no sense. Maybe something more suited to the city like the Marysville Homeless or the Marysville Crime.
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  • DrMike
    802
    ↪yolohw
    They were going to name them the Marysville Bullets but people thought that was too violent an image. They will be the Twin City Bullets, instead.
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  • BaseballAtDobbins
    97
    Glad Dobbins is still getting lights. Was the funding already secured?
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  • 69aggie
    386
    If memory serves, when the BB stadium was built they had the presence of mind to install conduit for future stadium lighting. But and it is a big but, this was a mostly voluntary construction project, so who knows if those conduits meet present standards and codes or can still work. If this is yes, it could save a lot of money. But my gut says no. You construction guys know this much better than I do. Thoughts?
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  • yolohw
    20
    ↪BaseballAtDobbins
    I remember someone, probably abridge, saying the lights were purchased prior to the season by the ownership group and were en route but stuck somewhere. Perhaps they finally arrived ?

    The procurement of lights may be part of their lease agreement.
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  • yolohw
    20
    I guess I need to change my username.
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  • movielover
    568
    ↪69aggie
    I'd differ slightly in the description. The original layout was volunteer based, but Coach Swimley had some sharp folks put together plans. The second-half was funded by the Dobbins Family, I'm guessing it was more 'professional', but campus foot dragging over gender equity issues delayed construction and shrank the project (inflation).
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