When the Pacific Coast League was founded in 1903, the Portland Beavers-then known as the Browns-played in the circuit's first game, a 3-1 road loss to the San Francisco Stars. When the PCL celebrated its centennial season in 2003, Portland was the only city in the league to have been there at the start. The team's alumni include Satchel Paige, Lou Piniella, and Louis Tiant, but even more familiar to Portland fans are players like Eddie Basinski, Roy Hesler, and Bernardo Brito, who spent much of their careers with the Beavers...and groundskeeper Rocky Benevento and broadcaster Rollie Truitt, who each spent over three decades with the ball club. The Portland Beavers samples the first century of the team's history: Walter McCredie's teams that won five pennants from 1906 to 1914; the championship clubs of 1932 and 1936; the last-to-first climb that ended with a PCL title in 1945; the 1983 pennant that came between the team's two departures from Portland; and the return in 2001 that re-established Beavers baseball as a summertime tradition.
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Authors Paul Andresen and Kip Carlson are both lifelong baseball fans and longtime Oregon baseball historians. Both are members of the Society for American Baseball Research. With the help of numerous collectors of Beavers' memorabilia, they trace the team's history with the help of over 200 photographs.
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Cool smooth read,
This review is from: The Portland Beavers (OR) (Images of Baseball) (Paperback)
Fun book.
I never really followed a minor league team's 20th-Century history and nice selction of photographs, coupled with easy reading sections coupled to the photos, made this book a nice smooth read. It was fun to read mentions and stories of 1940's-1960s ballplayers who's major league cards I had collected. Cool! Mike Egan
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When Henry Harris, president of the San Francisco club of the outlaw California League, came calling in the Pacific Northwest in December of 1902, his visit was anything but social; it would be the beginning of a chain of events that continue to this day. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
league career, new ballpark, run average Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Pacific Coast League, Vaughn Street, Courtesy of the Larrance Collection, World Series, San Diego, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Multnomah Stadium, Cleveland Indians, Courtesy of the Christiansen Collection, World War, Detroit Tigers, Northwest League, Rocky Benevento, Civic Stadium, National League, Pacific Northwest, Rollie Truitt, Cincinnati Reds, New York Yankees, Oregon Historical Society, Pittsburgh Pirates, Chicago Cubs, Courtesy of the Eskena, American League New!
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When Henry Harris, president of the San Francisco club of the outlaw California League, came calling in the Pacific Northwest in December of 1902, his visit was anything but social; it would be the beginning of a chain of events that continue to this day. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
league career, new ballpark, run average Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Pacific Coast League, Vaughn Street, Courtesy of the Larrance Collection, World Series, San Diego, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Multnomah Stadium, Cleveland Indians, Courtesy of the Christiansen Collection, World War, Detroit Tigers, Northwest League, Rocky Benevento, Civic Stadium, National League, Pacific Northwest, Rollie Truitt, Cincinnati Reds, New York Yankees, Oregon Historical Society, Pittsburgh Pirates, Chicago Cubs, Courtesy of the Eskena, American League New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Ball Four by Jim Bouton on page 122, and page 124
- Boston Braves (Images of America: Massachusetts) by Richard A. Johnson on page 21
- Kansas City Royals (Baseball Today Series) by Mollie Martin on page 94
- The Brooklyn Dodgers (NY) (Images of Sports) by Mark Rucker on page 59
- Milwaukee Brewers (Baseball Today Series) by Mollie Martin on page 94
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