Vancouver Mounties
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The Vancouver Mounties were a high-level minor league baseball club based in Vancouver, British Columbia. The Mounties played in the Pacific Coast League from 1956 through 1962 as the relocated Oakland Oaks franchise, and from 1965 through 1969 when the Dallas Rangers moved back to Canada.
The Mounties were affiliated with a number of Major League Baseball parent clubs: the Baltimore Orioles, Milwaukee Braves, Minnesota Twins, the Athletics of both Kansas City and Oakland, and as a co-op club working with the expansion Seattle Pilots and Montreal Expos in 1969. The following season, the club moved to Salt Lake City and became the Angels.
Vancouver was without professional baseball in the 1970s until 1978, when it received an expansion PCL franchise, the Vancouver Canadians, owned by Harry Ornest. After 22 seasons, the club moved south after 1999 to Sacramento and became the River Cats. They were immediately replaced by the current Canadians franchise in 2000, in the Class A Short Season Northwest League.
Notable players
- Brooks Robinson, hall of fame third baseman
- Pat Gillick, MLB executive
- George Bamberger, MLB manager
- Charlie Lau, influential MLB hitting coach
- Sal Bando, MLB All-Star third baseman
- Tony La Russa, MLB manager; over 2700 wins in 33 seasons
- Jim Bouton, MLB pitcher, author of landmark book Ball Four
References
External links
- Baseball Reference – Vancouver minor league teams