Category: Pacific Coast League

Portland Beavers 2001-2010

Portland Beavers (2001-2010)

October 12, 2020

The Pacific Coast League’s Portland Beavers of 2001 to 2010 were the last of four editions of the Beavers to compete in the historic Class AAA circuit dating back to the early 20th century. The latter day Beavers arrived in 2001 as part of an ambitious $38.5 million overhaul of Portland’s aging Civic Stadium. This edition of the Beavers served as the top farm club of the San Diego Padres for all ten seasons of their existence. The team was displaced in 2011 when PGE Park was converted into a soccer-specific stadium for the purpose of bringing Major League Soccer to Portland. The Pacific Coast League baseball franchise moved away to Tucson, Arizona in 2011 as a result.

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Tacoma Cubs Pacific Coast League

Tacoma Cubs

May 15, 2020

The Tacoma Cubs were the top farm club of the National League’s Chicago Cubs during the late 1960’s. The Cubs won the championship of the Class AAA Pacific Coast League during the summer of 1969. Chicago shifted their triple-A farm operation to Wichita, Kansas following the 1971 season and Tacoma’s Pacific Coast League franchise became the Tacoma Twins in 1972.

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Phoenix Firebirds Pacific Coast League

Phoenix Firebirds

May 13, 2020

Phoenix was the host of the San Francisco Giants’ top farm club for 32 seasons from 1966 until 1997. The Pacific Coast League club was known as the Phoenix Giants from 1966 through the 1985 season. In the early years, San Francisco owned their Phoenix affiliate directly, but a series of independent owners took over the franchise beginning in 1973. The last of these owners, Martin Stone, changed the team’s name to the Firebrids in 1986. The Firebirds were displaced by the arrival of Major League Baseball’s Arizona Diamondbacks and the franchise moved to Tucson in 1998.

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Tacoma Giants Pacific Coast League

Tacoma Giants

December 22, 2019

Pro baseball returned to Tacoma, Washington in the summer of 1960 with the transfer of the Pacific Coast League’s Phoenix Giants. Though the Tacoma Giants would last just six years before returning to Phoenix, the team produced a trio of future Hall of Famers: Juan Marichal, Willie McCovey & Gaylord Perry.

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