First Base Foundation and California Warriors Baseball Program is a 501(c)3 non-profit (EIN #: 37-1499235). Our mission is to provide high school student athletes access to a competitive travel baseball program regardless of ability to pay. FBF makes travel baseball more affordable, transforms lives through positive mentorship, and combats inequality by providing a healthy space for student athletes of diverse backgrounds to interact with one another in the pursuit of higher education and playing college baseball.
Jackson has been instrumental in establishing Cal’s culture of player development and has seen 22 players taken in the Major League Baseball Draft during his tenure. The Bears set a program record 2022 for the most players selected in the first five rounds of a single MLB Draft (4). Cal has also had three first-round picks – Andrew Vaughn (No. 3 overall, 2019), Korey Lee (No. 32 overall, 2019) and Dylan Beavers (No. 33 overall, 2022) – with Jackson on staff, all of which were undrafted out of high school. Jackson mentored Vaughn, the 2018 Golden Spikes Award winner, and helped Beavers emerge as one of the top power-hitting players on the west coast with 36 career long balls, the seventh most in program history. Vaughn and Lee became the first duo in school history to be taken in the first round of the same draft, and Vaughn additionally became the program’s highest-drafted player ever.
