Palm Springs Angels
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The Palm Springs Halos are a minor league baseball team of the Class A California League existed from 1986 to 1993 and an affiliate of the California Angels (now the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim). They relocated to Lake Elsinore, California after the 1993 season (now the Lake Elsinore Storm).
The team was brought to this desert city in 1986 (formerly the Redwood Pioneers), where the major league team under country music legend and team owner Gene Autry had the Angels use Palm Springs as a spring training camp in Palm Springs Stadium, built in 1950 was renovated in the late 1990's for other minor league teams.
P.S. Angel alumni includes Pete Rose Jr., J.T. Snow, Tim Salmon, Garrett Anderson and Jim Edmonds. Although average game attendance was below average of the league in the late 1980's, the P.S. Angels picked up on fans in the early 1990's, when stadium attendance records surpassed the 100,000 mark in 1992 and again in 1993.
The last team owner, Ken Stickney in The Desert Sun interview stated the P.S. Angels' move was due to a lack of city council support to approve a new minor league ballpark, after the California Angels gone to a new spring training facility in Tempe, Arizona.
Today, Palm Springs and Coachella Valley has more population and baseball fans eyed on a future four-team winter league, as well the collegiate-level team Palm Springs Power (2004-) fared better in fans, media and renevue than the minor league Angels.
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| Bakersfield Blaze | Modesto Nuts | San Jose Giants | Stockton Ports | Visalia Oaks | High Desert Mavericks | Inland Empire 66ers | Lake Elsinore Storm | Lancaster JetHawks | Rancho Cucamonga Quakes | |
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