The San Bernardino Pioneers were a minor league baseball team, that played in the Sunset League from 1947 to 1950. They originated as the Anaheim Valencias and were located in

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. On June 25, 1948, they moved to

San Bernardino, California San Bernardino (; Spanish for "Saint Bernardino") is a city and county seat of San Bernardino County, California, United States. Located in the Inland Empire region of Southern California, the city had a population of 222,101 in the 2020 ce ...

and the following season became the Pioneers. Baseball would not return to Anaheim until the California Angels of

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moved there in 1966.

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