Marysville, California is located 40 miles north of Sacramento.  Commercial, agricultural, recreational, and educational activities for the Yuba and Sutter counties area center around Marysville giving rise to its nickname: Hub City, with one of its early baseball teams being the Hub City Merchants.

From the old Trolley League at the turn of the previous century to the appearance of Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig at the old Municipal Ballpark on Third Street to Jackie Robinson's coming to Bryant Field, baseball has been a large piece in the mosaic of life in Marysville. 

The first ballpark in Marysville was the “old Third Street Park” where a river levee and a railroad track were just behind the right field fence.  When Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig made their appearance there in 1927 Gehrig hit the first home run, but Ruth hit the longest since, according to an appealing local legend, Ruth’s blast went over the fence and landed in a passing freight train's hopper car that didn’t stop until Oregon.

In 1937 a severe windstorm destroyed the Third Street Park, but soon thereafter the Marysville City Council approved Sacramento Square as the site for a new park.  That same Council named the new park Bryant Field in honor of the three-time Marysville mayor, Daniel E. Bryant, who was first appointed to the Council in 1929 and continued to serve until 1941.

Baseball’s appeal remained strong in Marysville from the 1930's through the 1950’s when residents flocked to watch the Marysville Giants at Bryant Field.  But by the late 1950's, with the advent of televised Major League Baseball games, crowds started to dwindle and by the mid-1960's Bryant Field was quiet and the field began to fall into disrepair.

Baseball Returns

In the year 2000 a modern stadium grew up around Bryant Field to complement the field.  

In 2004 All Seasons RV Center in Yuba City stepped forward to become an important piece in the continuing baseball history of the Yuba-Sutter area by agreeing to be the stadium naming rights sponsor, with the stadium now known as All Seasons RV Stadium.

Today through a broad-based community endeavor among the City of Marysville, local baseball fans, the Yuba-Sutter business and labor communities, Horizon Air and Yuba-Sutter Community Baseball, Inc., the Yuba-Sutter Gold Sox Baseball Club serves as the Host Team for the Horizon Air Summer Series.  

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 * Acknowledgment:  Historical references provided from “The Local Nine: A History of Baseball in Marysville, California” by Michael Jang.