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Vernon, California, was and still is a small community in Los Angeles County. Vernon fielded a PCL team because it was one of only two cities in Los Angeles County where the sale and consumption of alcohol was legal. Vernon used its "wet" distinction to its advantage.
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From 1903 through 1957, the Los Angeles Angels, a PCL team, were one of the mainstays of the Pacific Coast League, winning the PCL pennant 12 times. The Angels, along with the Portland Beavers , Oakland Oaks , Sacramento Solons , San Francisco Seals , and Seattle Indians were charter members of the Pacific Coast League which was founded in 1903.
The San Francisco Seals won 14 Pacific Coast League championships, more than any other team, followed by the Los Angeles Angels (12) and the Albuquerque Dukes and Portland Beavers (8). Among active PCL franchises, the Tacoma Rainiers have seven championships, the most of all teams, followed by the Sacramento River Cats (5) and the Oklahoma City ...
The hammer blow to the PCL's major league dreams came in 1958 with the arrival of the first MLB teams on the west coast (the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Francisco Giants). As a result, three of the PCL's flagship teams (the Los Angeles Angels , Hollywood Stars , and San Francisco Seals ) were immediately forced to relocate to smaller markets.
Los Angeles Angels: 1903 1957 Los Angeles, California: Relocated to Spokane, Washington, as the Spokane Indians: Memphis Redbirds: 1998 2020 Memphis, Tennessee: Transferred to the International League: Mission Bells: 1926 1927 San Francisco, California: Renamed the Mission Reds: Mission Reds: 1928 1937 San Francisco, California: Relocated to ...
Prior to 1936, the history of professional football in California was not a hopeful one. While there were two “major league Los Angeles teams” in 1926 (the Buccaneers of the NFL and the Los Angeles Wildcats of the first American Football League), both were actually traveling teams (the Buccaneers were based in Chicago, the Wildcats in Moline, Illinois) that lasted only one season, but ...
Venice Tigers (PCL) 1913–1914 Washington Park was a baseball park in Los Angeles , California , United States . It was primarily used for baseball and was the home of the Los Angeles Angels in the Pacific Coast League (PCL) from its opening on March 28, 1911, until they moved to Wrigley Field late in the 1925 season. [ 1 ]