Category: Northwest League

1996 Portland Rockies baseball program from the Northwest League

Portland Rockies

The Portland Rockies were a popular Class A farm club of the National League’s Colorado Rockies for six summers between 1995 and 2000. The Rockies shattered Northwest League single-game and full-season attendance records during the mid-1990’s and won the league championship during the 1997 season. The Class-A Rockies franchise was ultimately displaced by the return of triple-A baseball to the Rose City in 2001 and the ball club moved to Pasco, Washington where it continues to play today as the Tri-City Dust Devils of the Northwest League.

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New Westminster Frasers

The New Westminster Frasers were a British Columbia-based entry in the Class A Northwest League that lasted only one season during the summer of 1974. The team had no Major League affiliation. After a dreadfully attended 1974 campaign, the franchise relocated to Boise, Idaho ahead of the 1975 season.

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Bend Timber Hawks Northwest League

Bend Timber Hawks

The Bend Timber Hawks were, ever so briefly, a Central Oregon-based farm club of the Oakland Athletics. The franchise joined the Northwest League in 1978 as part of an expansion that saw the short-season Class A circuit expand from six to eight teams that summer. Following the 1978 season, owner Doug Emmans moved the franchise to Medford, Oregon but the Northwest League swiftly put a new team into Bend, the Central Oregon Phillies, for the 1979 campaign.

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Grays Harbor Mets

The Grays Harbor Mets were a short-season Class A farm team of the New York Mets that lasted for one season in Hoquiam, Washington during the summer of 1979. Formerly a non-affiliated club known as the Grays Harbor Loggers, the team took on the “Mets” identity after signing a Player Development Contract with New York for the 1979 season. But the marriage was an unhappy one. When New York pulled out at the end of 1979, Grays Harbor returned to independent status and went back to the Loggers name for their final season in 1980.

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Tri-City Atoms Northwest League

Tri-City Atoms (1965-1968)

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

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