In 1997, the league added the Chico Heat, while Palm Springs took the year off and Long Beach became the Mission Viejo Vigilantes.

The Chico Heat were a professional independent baseball team operating in Chico, California in the Western Baseball League.

They were created by Chico Heat Professional Baseball LLC, with former supermarket entrepreneur Steve Nettleton and his wife Kathy serving as principal owners.

On August 11, 2007, former Heat majority owner Steve Nettleton and former Heat players were honored as part of a celebration called " Remember The Heat Night " hosted by the Chico Outlaws as they faced the St. George RoadRunners.

Notable Heat alumni who would return to Chico to join the Outlaws organization as either a player, coach or executive include Greg Bicknell, Scott Navarro, Jon Macalutas and Lance Franks.

Their mascot is " Heater " the Dragon ( not to be confused with the former mascot of the 2000 Western Baseball League's Chico Heat, later the Chico Outlaws of the 2011 North American League ).

The Outlaws began play in May 2005, three years after their predecessors, the Chico Heat were forced to cease operations due to the folding of the Western Baseball League and not being able to find a new league to join.

The jersey # 1 ( which has never been worn by a player from either the Chico Heat or Chico Outlaws ) was retired at Nettleton Stadium in his honor.

This shatters previous records held by the Chico Heat and the Outlaws.

Ironically, former Armada manager Steve Yeager managed the Breakers to the WBL Championship in 2001, that team's inaugural season, beating the Chico Heat 3 games to 2.

In 2001, he managed the Long Beach Breakers in the independent ( now-defunct ) Western Baseball League, where the team won the league championship in their inaugural season that year beating the Chico Heat 3 games to 2.

Category: Chico Heat players

Chico won the league championship in its first season in the league, defeating Reno, 3-2.

Tri-City won the league championship for the year, 3 games to 1 over Chico.

The Zion Pioneerzz won the league championship, defeating Chico 3 games to 1.

The expansion Breakers won the league championship, edging snakebitten Chico 3 games to 2.

In 2002, Chico won its second league championship in the league's and the team's final season.

Rahm Emanuel is the current Mayor, having won the 2011 election with 55 % of the votes to 25 % for his closest opponent, Gery Chico.

Boulder's superb early-season form also saw them qualify for their first US Open Cup ; they won their opening round matchup against Chico Rooks 2-1, and then unexpectedly knocked off USL Pro Soccer League side San Diego Gauchos 5-4 on penalties to make the third round proper.

After the league folded, the western United States were without independent baseball until 2005, when former WBL cities Chico, Long Beach, and Yuma were awarded franchises in the upstart Golden Baseball League.

Bidwell obtained the four square league Rancho Los Ulpinos Mexican land grant in 1844, and the two square league Rancho Colus grant on the Sacramento River in 1845 ; later selling that grant and buying Rancho Arroyo Chico on Chico Creek to establish a ranch and farm.

In its inaugural season, the league was composed of eight teams: the Chico Outlaws, Fullerton Flyers, Long Beach Armada and San Diego Surf Dawgs in California ; Mesa Miners, Surprise Fightin ' Falcons and Yuma Scorpions in Arizona and the Japan Samurai Bears.

In, he set a major league single-season record for shortstops by playing in 54 games without committing an error, breaking the record previously set by Chico Carrasquel in.

After the formation of the Golden Baseball League in 2004, Chico was granted one of the eight original charter teams in the league along with the Fullerton Flyers, Long Beach Armada and San Diego Surf Dawgs in California ; Mesa Miners, Surprise Fightin ' Falcons and Yuma Scorpions in Arizona and a traveling team the Japan Samurai Bears.

On June 12, 2010 against the Philadelphia Phillies he was the first Chico Outlaw to make it to the Major Leagues and responded by becoming only the fourth player in major league history in hit a grand slam in his first at bat as he went deep to centerfield on the first pitch thrown to him.

The league had originally targeted eight teams and considered 10-12 potential sites, they were Chico ; Fresno ; Lodi ; Long Beach ; Merced ; Oceanside ; Oxnard ; Palm Springs ; Redding ; Rohnert Park, California ; Sacramento ; San Luis Obispo ; Santa Barbara ; St. George, Utah ; Yuba City, California ; Yuma, Arizona ; and Henderson, Nevada.

A multiple karting champion, he graduated to Formula 3 in Britain, winning numerous events before his tendency to make careless mistakes cost him dearly, and he finished 2nd in the championship to Chico Serra.

They opened their inaugural season on May 27, 2005, against the Flyers at Nettleton Stadium, bringing professional baseball back to Chico for the first time since the Chico Heat's 2002 championship campaign with the Western League.

It would take three years, but the Outlaws made it to their first GBL Championship Series in 2007 and beat the Long Beach Armada in four games, 3-1, to bring Chico their first professional championship since 2002.

With a strong squad in 1960 that included future notable NHL players Chico Maki, Roger Crozier, Pat Stapleton, he averaged a point a game in the regular season and playoffs, but racked up an average of five penalty minutes a game in the playoffs en route to the Teepees ' second Memorial Cup championship.

They were preceded by the Oroville / Chico Red Sox of the minor league's Class-C Far West League from 1948-1951 and were succeeded by the Chico Outlaws of the independent Golden Baseball League, taking their place in 2005.

The then Yuma Scorpions were one of the Golden Baseball League charter members in 2005 along with the Chico Outlaws, Fullerton Flyers, Long Beach Armada and San Diego Surf Dawgs in California ; Mesa Miners and Surprise Fightin ' Falcons in Arizona and the Japan Samurai Bears, the league's first ( and so far only ) traveling team.

Dutch producers reverted back to gabber after a final few parting shots with releases like Chico Chipolata " No More Happy Hardcore " ( 1996 ), Buzz Fuzz " Fuck Happy " ( 1997 ); whilst Bodylotion " Happy Is Voor Hobos " ( 1996 ) alternated between droll bouncy and no-nonsense gabber parts to get their message across.

Dieselhed issued Elephant Rest Home in 1998 ( a collection of previously unreleased songs ) and their final album, the rarely-seen Chico and the Flute in 2000 on Bongload before disbanding later in 2000.

Their final recording session was in early 1994 and when Chico Vasquez died several months later, the group disbanded.

Her final act of benevolence was to donate to the city of Chico on July 10, 1905, some 2, 238 acres ( almost ten square miles ) of land, along with a Children's Park in downtown Chico.

Led by Potvin, forwards Westfall, Harris, Nystrom, Clark Gillies, and goaltenders Smith and Glenn " Chico " Resch, the Islanders earned 88 points — 32 more than the previous season, and two more than their first two seasons combined — and earned their first playoff berth.

It stars Jack Albertson as Ed Brown ( the Man ), the cantankerous owner of a run down garage in an East Los Angeles barrio, and ( until his suicide late in the third season ) Freddie Prinze as Chico Rodriguez, an upbeat, optimistic Chicano young man who comes in looking for a job.

Early in the fourth season, a replacement for Chico was introduced.

By the 1974 – 1975 season, Sanford and Sons high lead-in helped the entire NBC Friday night lineup to place in the coveted bracket of Top 20 shows ( Chico and the Man, following Sanford, placed in the Top 10, while the police dramas The Rockford Files and Police Woman aired later in the evening and ranked in the lower reaches of the Top 20 ).

Summers are the dry season, with average daytime temperatures in the upper 80s to mid 90s but triple digits are a common occurrence, especially in the Chico, Redding and Red Bluff area.

He signed with the Chico Outlaws of the Golden Baseball League for the 2010 season.

The 2011 season also seen Take That tribute group Re-Take That throughout the season and Chico during the summer.

The members of Sha Na Na during the TV series were Jon ' Bowzer ' Bauman ( vocals ), Lennie Baker ( sax ), Johnny Contardo ( vocals ), Frederick ' Dennis ' Greene ( vocals ), ' Dirty Dan ' McBride ( guitar ) ( left after third season ), John ' Jocko ' Marcellino ( drums ), Dave ' Chico ' Ryan ( bass ), ' Screamin ' Scott Simon ' ( piano ), Scott ' Santini ' Powell ( vocals ), Donald ' Donny ' York ( vocals ).

* Eri Yoshida-pitched for the Kobe 9 Cruise of the Kansai Independent Baseball League in the 2009 season and the Chico Outlaws in the independent US Golden Baseball League in the 2010 season.

From the 2005 season to the 2011 season, the Outlaws played their home games at Nettleton Stadium, on the campus of Chico State University.

Fresno's impressive early season form also saw them qualify for the US Open Cup, where they made it all the way to the fourth round with victories over Chico Rooks, Utah Blitzz and El Paso Patriots, before they finally fell 3-1 to Los Angeles Galaxy.

The show was canceled after half a season because of low ratings, due to direct competition by NBC's Top 10 hits Sanford and Son and Chico and the Man.

The renovation effort is spearheaded by Los Angeles-area general contractor James Cowan and foreman Christopher Chico instead of the regular crew ( who were in the process of filming the remaining episodes of the season ), and only Holmes and senior contractor Damon Bennett ( both of whom had to fly regularly between Toronto and Los Angeles ) from the regular crew appear in this episode.