Santa Barbara Foresters

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The Santa Barbara Foresters are a college summer baseball team based in Santa Barbara, California. The Foresters are a member of the California Collegiate League of the National Baseball Congress. From 1991 to the present, the Foresters have played in Caesar Uyesaka Stadium.

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[edit] Franchise history

The Santa Barbara Foresters were started by Bob Townsend in 1991, named after a team sponsored by the local Forester lodge in the 1950's. The Foresters began as a college summer team using metal bats, but soon switched to wood bats in 1996, when they joined the National Baseball Congress. As professional baseball uses wood bats and college baseball uses metal bats, teams like the Foresters provide an opportunity for college baseball players to gain experience using wood bats before signing with a professional baseball team. They have become one of the top summer baseball teams in the country after winning their division fourteen straight years and national championships in 2006, 2008 and 2011. [1]

[edit] Quick facts

Founded: 1991
Home ballpark: Caesar Uyesaka Stadium
Uniform colors: White, Cobalt Blue, Red
Logo design: The word "Foresters' in block letters around a bear cub and a baseball bat
Mascot: A bear cub named Cubby.
Owner: The Foresters are a non-profit organization
President: David Hall[disambiguation needed ]
Head Coach/Executive Director: Bill Pintard
Assoc. Head Coach/General Manager: Pat Burns
Assistant Coaches: Gary Woods, Casey Cloud, Dan Yokubaitis, and Dave Pintard
Local Radio: AM 1340

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[edit] Rivals

Santa Barbara's past rivals were the Santa Maria Indians and the Maxim Yankees. The rivalries from these teams stem from the competition between both teams in league play and tournaments. Santa Maria is the only other California team to have won an NBC World Series championship besides the Foresters. Indian and Yankee games often draw considerably higher attendance figures to games at Caesar Uyesaka versus the average for other games. However, the San Luis Obispo Rattlers and the Conejo Oaks have quickly become the Forester's new rivals due to the elite competition among these teams and the annual trips to Wichita for the NBC World series at the end of the summer.

[edit] Retired numbers

The Santa Barbara Foresters have retired one number, 19. This was the number worn by Eric Pintard, son of Foresters owner and manager Bill Pintard. Eric, former Forester player and pitching coach, started the Hugs for Cubs program in 1995, which benefits kids with cancer. Eric died in 2004. The National Baseball Congress began awarding the Eric Pintard Most Inspirational Player Award in 2004.[2]

[edit] Hugs for Cubs

The Hugs for Cubs program is the official charity of the Santa Barbara Foresters. The Program began after Eric Pintard, a former Forester, lost his life to cancer. The program is aimed towards touching the lives of children currently battling cancer. Forester players make frequent visits to the children's hospital in Santa Barbara and Wichita, Kansas to hang out with and cheer up the patients. Hugs for Cubs also raises money through several annual charity events, ticket and concession sales, as well as raffle sales to help out these children fighting cancer. Every summer, the Foresters will take in a couple of cancer patients and "adopt" them to the team so they may have some fun times and create good memories away from the hospital. Finally, the Hugs for Cubs program holds several events over the summer such as Bowling at Zodos and NIght at the ball park where hugs for cubs patients get to travel to Angels stadium.

[edit] Radio

As of 2006, the Foresters' flagship radio station is Progressive Talk 1340 AM. The announcer is Blake Dorfman, who replaced Zach Spear, who was hired in February, 2009 by the Fort Myers Miracle of the Florida State League. Speak had who replaced Owen Grohman as of the 2007 season. Forester board member James Buckley, Jr. was the broadcaster in 2006 and often fills in.

[edit] Franchise Single-Season Leaders

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[edit] Notable former players

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[edit] References

  1. ^ a b The Official Website of the Santa Barbara Foresters
  2. ^ The Santa Barbara Independent Foresters on Fire
  3. ^ http://www.sbforesters.org/All%20TIme%20Records.pdf
  4. ^ http://www.sbforesters.org/Prosters.html

[edit] External links

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