Tag: Cheney Stadium

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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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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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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1976 Tacoma Twins baseball program from the Pacific Coast League

Tacoma Twins

August 14, 2017

The Tacoma Twins of the Pacific Coast League were the top farm club of the Minnesota Twins from 1972 until 1977. During this era, Tacoma helped to develop future Major League stars Lyman Bostock and Rick Dempsey. Perhaps the Tacoma Twins best player, by Class AAA standards, was first baseman Randy Bass. Bass slugged 64 home runs for Tacoma between 1975 and 1977. Though his Major League career never took off, Bass became a superstar in Japan winning back-to-back Japanese Triple Crowns in 1985 and 1986.

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Tacoma Tides American Soccer League

Tacoma Tides

April 9, 2015

The Tacoma Tides were a One-Year Wonder that competed in the American Soccer League in the summer of 1976.  The Tides shared Cheney Stadium, the city’s minor league baseball field, with the Tacoma Twins, who also had an ownership stake in the soccer club. The Tides were a good side in their only year of action.  The team finished 10-6-5 and earned a playoff spot, losing to the eventual champion Los Angeles Skyhawks in the semi-final match. Future U.S. National Team coach Bruce Arena was the Tides’ second string goalkeeper.

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