Gridley Normans
Area: Butte (Gridley)
Year: circa 1900

Description: Sponsor George H. Norman owned a drug store in downtown area. 

Back row (left to right): Harry Young (ss), Ed Wells (p), John Shaeffer (mgr.), and Eugene Young (3b)

Middle row (left to right): Humble (1b), Hank Mills (lf), Ed Sooy (rf)

Front row (left to right): Sewell Young (lf), Lee Winters (2b), and Mike Jarvis (rf)

Contributor: Gridley Museum

Gridley town team
Area: Butte (Gridley)
Year: circa 1900

Back row (left to right): unidentified, Frank Todd, John Shaffer, Claude Lilly, Bill Cruse, unidentified

Middle row (left to right): unidentified, Gene Young, Hank Mills, Lou Young

Front row (left to right): Ed Mills, unidentified, Ed Ramsdell

Contributor: Gridley Museum

Gridley town team
Area: Butte (Gridley)
Year: 1907 (June 22)

Marysville Merchants
Area: Yuba (Marysville)
Year: 1921 (Aug. 7)

Description:  Marysville Merchants Baseball team takes flight as the first club to fly to an away game. The flight was 80 miles to Woodland Ca and took 43 minutes.

Marysville Merchants baseball team posing before the Friesley Falcon airliner, August 1921. The team posed with the crew in front of the large twin engine aircraft, they recorded the fact that they were the first ball team in history to travel by aircraft to play a baseball game and this is also recognized Baseball Hall of Fame.  They are from left to right: Clifford Gottwalls, Warren Eich, Roy Francis (pilot), Capt. B. M. Spencer (designer, builder and pilot), Grafton Reed (mechanic), Clyde Manwell, Louis Wilcoxen, Tyrell Brook, Bryden Kelly, Lou Anthony, unidentified, Allen Eich, Charles Brown, and Harvey D. Eich (manager). The bat boy standing in front is Wonton Eich. The man who funded the Friesley Falcon project was Harold Friesley (aka Friesleben). The Friesleben family had a farm on Highway 70 between Marysville and Oroville. The Airliner was constructed in the town of Gridley. Although this twelve passenger airliner was not a financial success, the Friesley Falcon was aerodynamically and technologically a success. The Friesley Aircraft Corp. went bankrupt in 1922 and it is believed that the aircraft was sold to China.

Gridley Pelicans
Area: Butte (Gridley)
Year: 1945

Action shots in game played at Gridley ball park between Pelicans and visiting team.

Gridley Pelicans
Area: Butte (Gridley)
Year: circa 1945

Description: Ben Doering (pictured) is recognized for having built the playing field. In background are old grandstands and bleachers along with attached building used primarily for vending.

Gridley Pelicans
Area: Butte (Gridley)
Year: circa 1945

Back row (left to right): Dean Hogeboom, Ben Doering, Buzz MacFarlane, Coach Ray Roberts

Middle row (left to right): Marvin Cassady, George Doering, unidentified, George Peekema, Bill McMurtry

Front row (left to right): Bob Bassett, unidentified, Walter Little, Lou Morton, John Adams

Contributor: Gridley Museum

Gridley Pelicans
Area: Butte (Gridley)
Year: circa 1945

Left to right: Bob Basset, Walt Little and Dean Hogeboom

Contributor: Gridley Museum

Title: Sacramento Wallops Gridley Aggregation
Area: Sacramento
Year: 1946
Team: Sacramento Club, Gridley

Contributor: Gridley Museum

Gridley Baseball Field
Area: Butte (Gridley)
Year: 2017

Description: Above photo of Gridley Municipal baseball field now named "Veiera Park".  Ball park was built around 1896 when the new cannery Hunt Brothers first started the cannery picnic. They would have barbecues, baseball games, horseshoe matches, concerts, circus acts and dancing. Baseball has continued since that time with the original bleachers and backstop still in placed as well as the concrete dugouts. Diamond was modified to accommodate Little League baseball being played today and the grass is greener than in the good old days.

Gridley Baseball Field
Area: Butte (Gridley)
Year: 2017

Description: Above photo of Gridley Municipal baseball field now named "Veiera Park".  Ball park was built around 1896 when the new cannery Hunt Brothers first started the cannery picnic. They would have barbecues, baseball games, horseshoe matches, concerts, circus acts and dancing. Baseball has continued since that time with the original bleachers and backstop still in placed as well as the concrete dugouts. Diamond was modified to accommodate Little League baseball being played today and the grass is greener than in the good old days.

Gridley Baseball Field
Area: Butte (Gridley)
Year: 2017

Description: Above photo of Gridley Municipal baseball field now named "Veiera Park".  Ball park was built around 1896 when the new cannery Hunt Brothers first started the cannery picnic. They would have barbecues, baseball games, horseshoe matches, concerts, circus acts and dancing. Baseball has continued since that time with the original bleachers and backstop still in placed as well as the concrete dugouts. Diamond was modified to accommodate Little League baseball being played today and the grass is greener than in the good old days.