Tag: Derks Field

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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Salt Lake Sting

September 17, 2013

The Salt Lake Sting were a professional club that enjoyed a short, strange ride for parts of two seasons in the early 1990’s.  The Sting were formed as an expansion team in the Western Soccer League in September 1989.  Club founder Jack Donovan and his partners were a subset of the ownership group of the Salt Lake Trappers of minor league baseball.  The Sting shared 40-year old Derks Field with the Trappers, with the soccer pitch awkwardly stretched across the outfield and portions of the dirt infield. Despite setting a league attendance record in 1990, the club foundered badly under new management in 1991 and folded without completing their schedule.

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