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The Portland Beavers (Images of Baseball: Oregon) (Images of Baseball)
The Portland Beavers - Images of Baseball: Oregon - Images of Baseball Author:Kip Carlson, Paul Andresen When the Pacific Coast League was founded in 1903, the Portland Beaversthen known as the Brownsplayed in the circuits 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 teams alumni inc... more »lude 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 teams history: Walter McCredies 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 teams two departures from Portland; and the return in 2001 that re-established Beavers baseball as a summertime tradition.« less