Tri-City Atoms (1965-1968)
September 23, 2020
This second edition of the Tri-City Atoms baseball team represented the cities of Kennewick, Richland and Pasco, Washington in the Northwest League during the mid/late 1960’s. An earlier Tri-City entry in the Northwest League was also named the Atoms during the summer of 1961. The team derived its name from the region’s proximity to the Hanford Site, the infamous top secret U.S. government plutonium production facility of the Manhattan Project, which created the nuclear material used in the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki in August 1945
