Those changes included over 96,000 square feet of steel additions and a roof made from Douglas fir beams native to the Pacific Northwest. Over the 2010-11 offseason, the stadium underwent extensive renovations with a goal of melding its classic and modern eras. The Mariners linked up with the newly minted Rainiers, who assumed a moniker that Seattle’s own PCL team held from 1919-64. In 1995, the most logical partnership for Tacoma’s team arrived and with it, a new name. Partnerships with the Twins, Yankees (for the 1978 season only), Indians and Athletics followed until 1994. They won their first game in Tacoma behind a shutout by Juan Marichal, captured a PCL championship in their second season of 1961 and called the town home until ’65.Īfter San Francisco shifted its affiliation back to Phoenix, the Chicago Cubs moved into Tacoma from 1966-71, hoisting a PCL pennant in ’69. The Tacoma Giants were the ballpark’s first residents. Its original construction date of 1960 precedes the next-oldest stadium in the Minors’ top classification, Buffalo’s Sahlen Field, by 28 years, and Cheney’s grandstand is still the same one built over that lightning-quick span in the year John F. The city built a brand new ballpark in just three months and 14 days, and Cheney Stadium - known as the “100-Day Wonder” - was born.ĭepending on your definition of ballpark continuity, Cheney Stadium is the oldest in all of Triple-A. In the late 1950s, Tacoma-area businessmen Ben Cheney and Clay Huntington led the push for a Triple-A team to take up residence in the city, and they became successful in 1960 when the Giants, just three years into being West Coasters, agreed to move their top affiliate from Phoenix to Tacoma.
Triple-A baseball didn’t return to the city for another 55 years, but Tacoma wasn’t without baseball in the interim, with teams also known as the Tigers operating in the Northwestern League, Pacific Coast International League, Northwest International League and Western International League to fill the void. After doing the same in the first half of 1905, the franchise moved back to Sacramento. and won their city its first PCL pennant by finishing first in both halves of the 1904 campaign.
The Tacoma Tigers joined the league the following year after moving from Sacramento, Calif. In 1903, Tacoma welcomed the hallowed Pacific Coast League, then in its infancy as a de facto major league for the West Coast. Teams called the Robbers, Colts, Owls, Tigers and Cubs plied their trade in various circuits through the close of the 19th and first half of the 20th centuries, often squaring off with Seattle’s squads, known as the Blues, Rainmakers, Clamdiggers, Chinooks, Siwashes and more.
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Beginning with the Tacoma Daisies of the 1890 Pacific Northwest League, the city has hosted professional baseball for over 130 years. While Seattle, Tacoma’s neighbor 25 miles to the north, has had the more renowned baseball history of its region, Washington’s third-largest city boasts hardball roots going back just as long.
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