Moorpark College, a 13,756-student community college nestled into the rolling green hills of southeastern Ventura County, certainly doesn’t look as if it would have any real importance to one of Major League Baseball’s most storied franchises.
Since the school was founded 52 years ago, it has produced seven major-league players, only three of whom have appeared in more than 100 games. The most famous is a former Division I washout who arrived at Moorpark in August 1994 hoping to resuscitate his career and prove to himself that he wasn’t a failure.
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“Moorpark was a turning point of, ‘Hey, this is what I’m going to do for the rest of my life,’” Ryan Briggs — the starting shortstop on the 1995 Raiders — said of his former teammate, new San Francisco Giants manager Gabe Kapler.