Category: Pacific Coast League

Fernando Martinez on the cover of a 2012 Oklahoma City RedHawks baseball program from the Pacific Coast Baseball League

Oklahoma RedHawks / Oklahoma City RedHawks

May 19, 2024

The Oklahoma RedHawks (later the Oklahoma City RedHawks from 2009 to 2014) were a Class AAA farm club of the Texas Rangers and Houston Astros from 1998 through 2014.  Although the RedHawks identity has now passed into history after seventeen seasons, the franchise itself is historic and remains a strong entry in the Pacific Coast League (PCL) to this day. During the RedHawks era, Oklahoma City produced future Major League stars such as George Springer, Michael Young, R.A. Dickey and J.D. Martinez among others.

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1953 Tulsa Oilers baseball program from the Texas League

Tulsa Oilers (1919-1976)

July 24, 2022

The Oilers were Tulsa, Oklahoma’s minor league baseball team for most of the 20th century. The team competed in various league at different levels of competition. But at their competitive zenith, the Oilers spent eleven seasons from 1966 until 1976 serving as the top farm club of the National League’s St. Louis Cardinals. During this era, the Oilers won three Class AAA playoff championships and supplied a steady stream of future Major League stars.

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1959 Portland Beavers Baseball Program from the Pacific Coast League

Portland Beavers (1906-1972)

July 18, 2022

Today we look at the original Portland Beavers baseball team of 1906-1972, the first and most enduring of three clubs to play under the Bevos name in the storied Pacific Coast League. When the team finally moved away to Spokane, Washington in early 1973, Portland became the last of the original six PCL cities of 1903 to lose its minor league baseball franchise. The second version of the Beavers would return to Portland’s Civic Stadium in 1978.

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Illustration of Jose Canseco on the cover of a 1989 Tacoma Tigers baseball program from the Pacific Coast League

Tacoma Tigers (1980-1994)

May 8, 2022

The Tigers were Tacoma, Washington’s Pacific Coast League entry for fifteen summers between 1980 and 1994. Contrary to what a modern day reader might deduce from the name, the Tacoma Tigers never served as a farm team of Major League Baseball’s Detroit Tigers. Rather, after cycling through four different identity changes during the 1970’s the team’s local owners decided in 1980 to turn back the clock and honor the Tacoma minor league clubs that traditionally played under the Tigers name in various leagues between 1901 and 1951.

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Salt Lake Padres Pacific Coast League

Salt Lake Padres

November 27, 2020

For one season, during the summer of 1970, Salt Lake City, Utah hosted the top farm club of the San Diego Padres in the Pacific Coast League. The Salt Lake Padres suffered a wretched season on the field and the short-lived partnership remains sufficiently obscure that both Baseball-Reference.com and some editions of The Encyclopedia of Minor League Baseball published by Baseball America mis-identify the 1970 Salt Lake teams as the “Bees”, the historic name used by various Salt Lake City clubs dating back to the early 19th century.

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