The Seattle Rainiers, originally named the Seattle Indians, were a minor league baseball team which played in the Pacific Coast League from 1903 through 1906, and from 1919 though 1968. Along with the Los Angeles Angels, Portland Beavers, Oakland Oaks, Sacramento Solons, and San Francisco Seals the Rainiers were charter members of the Pacific Coast League which was founded in 1903. Though the team finished second in 1906, the PCL contracted from six teams to four after the season (mainly due to the failures of the Sacramento franchise). For the next eleven seasons, the Indians played in the Northwest League, at the time a Class B league. Part of the History of baseball series. ... The Pacific Coast League (PCL) is a minor league baseball league operating in the West and Midwest of the United States. ... For the American League franchise see: Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. ... San Diego Padres National League AAA Portland Beavers AA Mobile BayBears A Lake Elsinore Storm Fort Wayne Wizards Eugene Emeralds R Peoria Padres The Portland Beavers are a minor league baseball team which, along with the Los Angeles Angels,, Oakland Oaks, Sacramento Solons, San Francisco Seals, and Seattle Indians, was... For the American Basketball Association team see: Oakland Oaks (ABA). ... The Sacramento Solons were a minor league baseball team which played in the Pacific Coast League in 1903, 1905, from 1909 through 1914, from 1918 through 1960, and from 1974 through 1976. ... For the professional hockey team see: San Francisco Seals (WHL). ... The Northwest League of Professional Baseball is a minor league baseball league which operates in the northwestern United States and western Canada. ...

The Indians re-entered the PCL in 1919 with Portland (which had dropped out of the league after 1917), bringing the number of teams in the league to eight. The Indians finished in last place that year, but jumped to second in 1920. In 1924, the Indians won their first PCL pennant, clinching the title on the last day of the 202-game season. Portland is the largest city in Oregon, and county seat of Multnomah County. ...

For more than a decade after their championship run, the Indians were mired in the second division year after year. In 1932, their home park, 15,000-seat Dugdale Field, burned to the ground. Located at Rainier and McClellan Streets, it had been built in 1913 when the Indians played in the Northwest League. For the next six years, the team played at Civic Stadium, featuring a playing field of hardpan dirt.

Events took a definite turn for the better in 1938 when Emil Sick, owner of Seattle's Rainier Brewing Company, bought the Indians and renamed them the Seattle Rainiers. He began construction of Sick's Stadium, a 15,000-seat facility on the site of old Dugdale Field. Sick invested in the team, and it bore results. The Rainiers finished first in 1939, 1940, and 1941. They lost the postseason series in 1939, but won pennants in 1940 and 1941. In 1942 and 1943, the Rainiers finished in third place, but won the PCL pennant in the postseason both years. 1907 Rainier ad in the Pacific Monthly Rainier Brewing Company was a Seattle, Washington company that brewed Rainier Beer, a very popular brand in the Pacific Northwest. ... Sicks Stadium, also known as Sicks Seattle Stadium, was a baseball stadium located in Seattle, Washingtons Rainier Valley at the corner of S. McClellan Street and Rainier Avenue S. The stadium first opened on June 15, 1938 as the home field of the Pacific Coast Leagues...

After a few lean years, the Rainiers won PCL flags in 1951 and 1955, the last pennants won under Sick's ownership. After the 1960 season, the team was sold to the Boston Red Sox. The Red Sox in turn sold the Rainiers to the Los Angeles Angels in 1965, who renamed the team the Seattle Angels, as they were known during their last four seasons. Boston Red Sox American League AAA Pawtucket Red Sox AA Portland Sea Dogs A Wilmington Blue Rocks Greenville Bombers Lowell Spinners R Gulf Coast Red Sox The Boston Red Sox are a Major League Baseball team located in Boston, Massachusetts. ... Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim American League AAA Salt Lake Stingers AA Arkansas Travelers A Rancho Cucamonga Quakes Cedar Rapids Kernels R Orem Owlz Mesa Angels For the Pacific Coast League franchise see: Los Angeles Angels (PCL). ...

The last hurrah for the Rainiers-turned-Angels came in 1966, when the Seattle Angels won the championship of the PCL's new Western Division (the PCL had absorbed former American Association teams in the midwestern and southwestern parts of the United States). In the playoffs, the Angels defeated the Eastern Division champion Tulsa Oilers, for Seattle's last PCL pennant. The American Association has been the name of at least two leagues of professional United States of America. ...

The team's last year was 1968, in which they finished in eighth place overall. Seattle had been granted an expansion team in the American League, the ill-fated Seattle Pilots, which began play in 1969. The Pilots would last but one year in Seattle, before a bankruptcy court sold the team to a group headed by Bud Selig and were moved to Milwaukee in 1970. In 1977, another American League expansion team was awarded to Seattle, the Seattle Mariners. City nickname Emerald City City bird Great Blue Heron City flower Dahlia City mottos The City of Flowers The City of Goodwill City song Seattle, the Peerless City Mayor Greg Nickels County King County Area   - Total   - Land   - Water   - % water 369. ... The American League (or formally the American League of Professional Baseball Clubs) is one of two leagues that make up Major League Baseball in the United States of America and Canada. ... (For the circa-1900 major league baseball team once known as the Milwaukee Brewers, see Baltimore Orioles. ... Allan Huber Bud Selig (born July 30, 1934 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is the current Commissioner of Baseball, having been formally appointed on July 2, 1998 after having served as acting commissioner since 1992. ... Milwaukee is the largest city in the state of Wisconsin, United States and the county of Milwaukee. ... Seattle Mariners American League AAA Tacoma Rainiers AA San Antonio Missions A Inland Empire 66ers Wisconsin Timber Rattlers Everett AquaSox R Peoria Mariners The Seattle Mariners are a Major League Baseball team based in Seattle, Washington. ...