Three players have played Major League Baseball from Folsom. Spider Jorgensen, John Briggs and Mike Cather. Jorgensen made his MLB debut for the Dodgers on April 15, 1947, the same day teammate Jackie Robinson broke the Major League color barrier.
“In this city of 3,000 [Folsom] two-thirds of the population eat, sleep, drink, think and talk about nothing but baseball during the season.”
-Jack Montgomery, Baseball Magazine, Circa 1930’s