Life can come at you pretty fast sometimes. Just ask the Humboldt Crabs’ Elijah McNeal, the 18 year old the San Francisco Giants selected in the 20th round of the Major League Baseball Draft this week. In the past calendar year, the 6-feet-3-inch, 180-pound infield prospect out of Dublin, California, has seen a lotta bit […]
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The Boys are Back in Town
Baseball is a crazy, beautiful, devastating and triumphant game. Sometimes, all in the span of a week. It’s a game of failure, where hitters can be successful if they get a hit three out of 10 times. And if you can win just over half of your meaningful games, you are in a great spot […]
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Crabs Roll and We Ain’t Talking Sushi
A sign of a good baseball team is the ability to win in a bunch of different ways, a quality the Humboldt Crabs have shown this summer. They’ve had two walk-off wins, one in extra innings. They’ve had two wins by at least 14 runs. They have been down 5-0 before even coming to the […]
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Crabs Roll and We Ain’t Talking Sushi
A sign of a good baseball team is the ability to win in a bunch of different ways, a quality the Humboldt Crabs have shown this summer. They’ve had two walk-off wins, one in extra innings. They’ve had two wins by at least 14 runs. They have been down 5-0 before even coming to the […]
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Enyart Leads the Way for Undefeated Crabs
After sweeping the Novato Knicks last week to open the summer, the Humboldt Crabs entered week two with a head of steam and would continue to roll. The pitching staff opened the week with back-to-back shutouts and the offense exploded, outscoring their opponents 23-0 over those two games. Above all else, this week will be […]
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The Humboldt Crabs and Blue Lake’s Council Drama
This week we’re delving into the history, founders, newly renovated ballpark and even the snack shack of the Humboldt Crabs. We’ve also got an update on the shake-up in Blue Lake where a recall of city councilmembers has begun. Hit subscribe for weekly updates on Humboldt stories.
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A History of Humboldt County Baseball
Editor’s Note: A version of this story first appeared in the Humboldt Historical society’s Humboldt Historian in spring of 2014, on the 70th anniversary of the Humboldt Crabs Baseball team. In 2023, after a decade playing as an independent team, the Crabs joined the Pacific Empire League. The oldest continuously operating semi-pro collegiate summer baseball […]
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Crabs Players of the Year
It was a summer of ups and downs for the Humboldt Crabs. After starting 0-7 in a new conference, our boys would rally back. They would fight and claw their way into contention with a magical midsummer stretch, bringing a competitive and suspense-driven brand of baseball the North Coast may not be used to seeing. […]
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Huge Games Await the Crabs, with Playoff Hopes in the Balance
In baseball, and in life, sometimes you have to focus on the things you can control. The Humboldt Crabs enter the last two-game set of their conference schedule against the last place West Coast Kings tonight at a deadlock with the Lincoln Potters for the final playoff spot in the PEL, and a chance to […]
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Crabs Get the Sweep, Move into Playoff Contention
Baseball is a game ladened with ebbs and flows. When things are good, they are really good, and when things are bad, well … the sky is falling. Sometimes the keys to success can be found in that stability between the ups and the downs, after all, baseball is every day. After starting their conference […]
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Crabs Rally to Win Third Series in a Row
After an exciting week that featured three walk-off wins and their first conference series victory, the Humboldt Crabs had seemingly turned things around after opening conference play 0-7. They’d get one day to enjoy it before embarking on a new week of challenges that included six games in six days. Momentum can be fickle, especially […]
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Crabs Rally to Win Third Series in a Row
After an exciting week that featured three walk-off wins and their first conference series victory, the Humboldt Crabs had seemingly turned things around after opening conference play 0-7. They’d get one day to enjoy it before embarking on a new week of challenges that included six games in six days. Momentum can be fickle, especially […]