Tag: Bill Yuill

Medicine Hat Blue Jays Pioneer League Baseball

Medicine Hat Blue Jays

December 8, 2018

Medicine Hat, Alberta’s 3,000-seat Athletic Park was the spring time destination for first and second year Toronto Blue Jays prospects for a quarter century between 1978 and 2002. When Medicine Hat joined the Pioneer League in 1977, the loop also featured teams in Calgary and Lethbridge. But in later years the Gas City became a remote outpost on the Pioneer League roster. After Calgary and Lethbridge left the league, Medicine Hat’s nearest rival was Great Falls, Montana, over four hours away.

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1981 Tucson Toros baseball program from the Pacific Coast League

Tucson Toros

June 13, 2017

Pacific Coast League (1969-1997) Born: 1969 Re-Branded: 1998 (Tucson Sidewinders) First Game: Last Game: PCL Champions: 1991 & 1993 Hi Corbett Field Owners: 1969-1973: Roy Jackson 1974-1983: Bill

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1990 Las Vegas Silver Streaks media guide from the World Basketball League

Las Vegas Silver Streaks

July 18, 2012

The Las Vegas Silver Streaks were the first champions of the World Basketball League in 1988. The WBL was an unusual summer-season minor league basketball circuit that required all players to be 6′ 4″ or shorter. Jamie Waller, a 6′ 4″ guard out of Virginia Union who played right at the league’s height limit, led the WBL in scoring in all three of the Silver Streaks seasons from 1988 through 1990.

The WBL was a minor league by design. It also featured an unusual gimmick – all players had to be 6′ 4″ or shorter. It was a high scoring, fast breaking league designed to showcase guards. The league played a summer time schedule, allowing its players to seek employment year-round, going overseas or playing in the Continental Basketball Association during the fall and winter.

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