Pacific Coast League - Definition and Overview

The Pacific Coast League is a minor league baseball league operating in the West and Midwest of the United States and Canada. The Pacific Coast League has a long tradition on the West Coast, with teams with evocative names such as the Hollywood Stars, Los Angeles Angels, Oakland Oaks, Portland Beavers, Sacramento Solons, San Diego Padres, San Francisco Seals, and Seattle Rainiers. The league's success was disrupted in 1958 by the moves of the Brooklyn Dodgers to Los Angeles and the New York Giants to San Francisco. The league never recovered from those days, and diminished in the public eye to nothing more than another minor league.

In 1997, the Pacific Coast League agreed to merge with the American Association, which had operated in the Midwest. The league now stretches from western Washington to Middle Tennessee. The league is divided into two conferences, the American Conference and Pacific Conference; after a realignment for 2005 necessitated by the move of the Edmonton Trappers to Round Rock, Texas, each is divided into a Northern Division and the Southern Division.

Current member teams:

• Albuquerque Isotopes - American Southern
• Colorado Springs Sky Sox - Pacific Northern
• Fresno Grizzlies - Pacific Southern
• Iowa Cubs - American Northern
• Las Vegas 51s - Pacific Southern
• Memphis Redbirds - American Northern
• Nashville Sounds - American Northern
• New Orleans Zephyrs - American Southern
• Oklahoma RedHawks - American Southern
• Omaha Royals - American Northern
• Portland Beavers - Pacific Northern
• Round Rock Express - American Southern
• Sacramento River Cats - Pacific Southern
• Salt Lake Stingers - Pacific Northern
• Tacoma Rainiers - Pacific Northern
• Tucson Sidewinders - Pacific Southern

Pacific Coast League champions Presidents of the PCL

• 1903-1906 Eugene F. Bert
• 1907-1909 J. Cal Ewing
• 1910-1911 Judge Thomas F. Graham
• 1912-1919 Allan T. Baum
• 1920-1923 William H. McCarthy
• 1924-1931 Harry A. Williams
• 1932-1935 Hyland H. Baggerly
• 1936-1943 William C. Tuttle
• 1944-1954 Clarence H. Rowland
• 1955-1955 Claire V. Goodwin
• 1956-1959 Leslie M. O’ Connor
• 1960-1968 Dewey Soriano
• 1968-1973 William B. McKechnie, Jr.
• 1974-1978 Roy Jackson
• 1979-1997 William S. Cutler
• 1998-Present Branch B. Rickey

External links

• Pacific Coast League official site (http://www.pclbaseball.com)

Other definitions

The Pacific Coast League also describes an American high school sports league in Orange County, California.

External links

• Standings for PCL high school teams (http://orangecounty.maxpreps.com/FanPages/Sports/Football/Common/Conference.asp?GroupID=796&ID=34)