The Vernon Tigers were a Minor League Baseball team that represented Vernon, California in the Pacific Coast League (PCL) from 1909 to 1925. The team won back-to-back PCL pennants in 1919 and 1920. The Tigers, together with the Sacramento Solons, joined the PCL as a new team in 1909 when the league expanded from six teams to eight. The Tigers effectively were a second team in Los Angeles, rivals of the existing Los Angeles Angels.
Al Carson donning the 1911 Tigers home uniform with "Vernon" vertically affixed to the placket of the shirt.
Jakie May is photographed during the 1922 season wearing Vernon's pinstriped uniforms featuring a tiger on the left breast.
Vernon is a city five miles (8.0 km) south of downtown Los Angeles, California, the nearest separate city to downtown Los Angeles. The population was 112 at the 2010 United States Census, the least of any incorporated city in the state. Its population nearly doubled to 222 by the 2020 census, making it the second least populous city in the state after Amador City, whose population grew only slightly—from 185 in the 2010 census, to 200 in the 2020 census.
The Vernon water tower in April 2009
The Battle of La Mesa was the last battle fought between the Americans and the Californios during the Conquest of California
Inspection of slag heap at the Exide facility, April 2014
Vernon City Hall
