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The Banner Island area is also the purported home of a previous Stockton baseball team that played in the late 1800s.

Local residents claim that the team was the inspiration for the Mudville Nine in Casey at the Bat, a poem by Ernest Thayer.

Before moving to the ballpark, the Stockton Ports were known as the Mudville Nine during the 2000 and 2001 seasons.