Bio

Craig Mitchell was a right-handed pitcher from Shadle Park High School who played at SFCC for Coach Bill Johnson. He was an NWAACC All-Conference pitcher who finished the 1974 season with a 7-3 record and a 1.74 ERA, which ranked him in in the top ten all time ERA’s at CCS. Mitchell was drafted by the Oakland A’s and played three years of major league professional baseball for them. He pitched in his first major league game on September 25, 1975 when he was 21 years old. Mitchell played eight seasons of professional baseball and was named to the AAA Pacific Coast League All-Star team in 1978. After baseball, he became a general contractor and built custom houses and coached youth baseball in California. Mitchell lives on the family cattle ranch in Elk, California and is an EMT for the local fire department.