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The Portland Beavers (OR) (Images of Baseball)

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When the Pacific Coast League was once founded in 1903, the Portland Beavers-then referred to as the Browns-played within 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 once the one city within the league to have been there firstly. The team’s alumni include Satchel Paige, Lou Piniella, and Louis Tiant, but much more familiar to Portland fans are players like Eddie Basinski, Roy Hesler, and Bernardo Brito, who spent much in their careers with the Beavers…and groundskeeper Rocky Benevento and broadcaster Rollie Truitt, who each and every spent over three decades with the ball club. The Portland Beavers samples the primary 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 go back in 2001 that re-established Beavers baseball as a summertime tradition.

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