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The Portland Mavericks were an independent professional baseball team in the northwestern United States, based in Portland, Oregon. They began to play in the short-season Class A Northwest League in 1973, [ 2 ] after the Portland Beavers of the Pacific Coast League left after the 1972 season and became the Spokane Indians .
This is for players of the Portland Mavericks minor league baseball team, who played in the Northwest League from 1973-1977. Pages in category "Portland Mavericks players" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total.
The Battered Bastards of Baseball is a 2014 documentary film about the Portland Mavericks, a defunct minor league baseball team in Portland, Oregon.They played five seasons in the Class A-Short Season Northwest League, from 1973 through 1977.
Bellingham won the affiliate division with a 42–26 record and played the Portland Mavericks for the league championship. In a best of three series, Bellingham and Portland split the first two games. The Baby M's held off the Mavericks by a score of 4–2 in the decisive game to claim the 1977 Northwest League crown. [3]
Russell owned the Portland Mavericks (1973–1977), the only independent team in the Short Season Northwest League. Russell kept a 30-man roster because he believed that some of the players deserved to have one last season.
In 1977, the Salem Senators returned as an independent team in the Class A Northwest League. [3] They lost their first game on June 17 to the Portland Mavericks 9–8. [ 5 ] Home games were at Holland Youth Park and then Chemeketa Community College . [ 3 ]
Sep. 29—PORTLAND, Maine — Minor league baseball was popular in town long before the Sea Dogs first stepped up to the plate at Hadlock Field in 1994. Portland's professional-ballplaying history ...
Following the departure of the Boise A's to Medicine Hat, Alberta, after the 1976 season, Boise went without professional baseball in 1977. [1] Lanny Moss, who had gained notoriety as the 27-year-old female general manager of the Portland Mavericks, was awarded ownership of an expansion franchise in the Northwest League. [2]