10/24/2024-The Martinez Sturgeon will play an exhibition Spring Training Game against the San Quentin Giants in the San Quentin Prison the
week of May 18, 2025.
Exact time and date will be established closer to game. Sturgeon players and staff will receive clearance to go on site and play the
game.
The game was setup by the media release of Austin Thurman's success in the Pecos League after playing for the San Quentin Team.
Austin
Thurman 2021 Roswell Invaders was one of the best ever players to play for San Quentin Prison team. Upon his release he
played an entire season for the Roswell Invaders and played centerfield on a team that made it all the way to the championship game.
The San Rafael Pacifics played a game against the Giants exactly twelve years earlier on May 18, 2013.
The Pacifics took on the San Quentin Giants at historic San Quentin prison as the Pacifics went on to finish the day with a spring
training victory beating the Giants 17-3.
San Quentin Rehabilitation Center, formerly known as San Quentin State Prison,is a California Department of Corrections and
Rehabilitation state prison for men, located north of San Francisco in the unincorporated place of San Quentin in Marin County.
Established in 1852, and opening in 1854, San Quentin is the oldest prison in California.