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Stockton Ports
The Stockton Ports is a local baseball team in the town of Stockton of California. The Ports play as a member of the Northern Division of the Class A California League and they also play as a minor league affiliates of the Oakland Athletics. Banner Island Ballpark is their home ground, with a seating capacity of more than 5,000.

The baseball history of the Stockton, tells us that the game at first came to the town in the 1860s. Stockton began to field a team in an earlier incarnation of the California League till the 1880s.

The Stockton team had won the California League pennant with a record of 41-12 in the year of 1888. That same team had also gained a lot of fame through a famous baseball poem by Ernest Thayer. The Stockton Flyers were established as a charter member of the California League in 1941. The league had to stop its functions in June, 1942 due to World War II.

The Ports got a chance to win the California League pennant in 1947, for a second time. After going 24-18 playing through June 4, they went on a 26-game winning streak and took first place, never to relinquish again in that season. The win streak formed by the Port, is the longest in professional baseball and is still a California League record.

The Ports finished made a history by making a record of 95-45 and sixteen games ahead of the two teams tied for second place, in that season. The baseball historians Bill Weiss and Marshall Wright have placed the 1947 Ports at 98 position in one of the one hundred best Minor League teams of all times.

The team was owned by Stockton local Carl W. Thompson, and there is a possibility that the Ports would disband after the 1972 season, coming back as the affiliates of the Seattle Mariners in 1978. The poem by Ernest Thayer poem pays the homage to the Ports.

In 2002 the Ports won their most recent California League Championship, bringing their total to ten. The Ports have the most among the league's active franchise with the addition of ten league titles. In 2005 the Ports became an affiliate of the Oakland Athletics and began play at the Banner Island Ballpark.

It is noteworthy that baseball has been played in Stockton for over 100 years, but the Stockton Ports didn't come on the scene until 1941. The Ports had gained such a different name from the rich history and strong resource as the states only inland Port.

The league had re-established in Stockton after the Second World War. The Ports are a part of a ten team league with teams in Modesto, San Jose, Visalia, Bakersfield, High Desert, Inland Empire, Lancaster, Lake Elsinore and Rancho Cucamonga, in these days.

The Ports have won over ten titles in the total of 55 years. They have received so many honors and accolades, during the period. One of these is a name in the 100 great leagues.