The Bend Rainbows were a minor league baseball team in Bend, Oregon, from 1970 to 1971. They played in the Class A-Short Season Northwest League and were an affiliate of the Triple-A Hawaii Islanders of the Pacific Coast League. Despite their brief tenure in minor league baseball, the team is often remembered as the team for which actor Kurt Russell began his professional baseball career.
Bend Rainbows 1971 Team Photo
Kurt Russell batting for the Rainbows in 1971.
Vince Genna Stadium, formerly Municipal Stadium, during a 1992 Bend Rockies game.
Bend is a city in Central Oregon and the county seat of Deschutes County, Oregon, United States. It is located to the east of the Cascade Range, on the Deschutes River.
View of Pilot Butte from downtown, 2022
View of downtown Bend, c. 1920
Brooks-Scanlon Lumber Company in 1922
The last remaining Blockbuster in the world, on Route 20 and Revere Ave