Portland Beavers
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The Portland Beavers was the name of separate minor league baseball teams, which represented Portland, Oregon, in the Pacific Coast League. The team was established in 1903, the first year of the PCL.
Former Beavers manager and part owner Walter McCredie
The Portland Beavers and Hollywood Stars managers before a game performing a comedy routine (Gilmore Field in the 1940s)
Vince Sinisi on deck in 2008
The Memorial Coliseum in the Rose Quarter was an original site for the proposed ballpark; however, it met public opposition.
Merritt Paulson
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Henry Merritt Paulson III is an American businessman who is the minority owner of Peregrine Sports, LLC, which owns the operating rights to the Portland Timbers, a Major League Soccer team. He and his
Portland Beavers
…renamed the 51s for 2001. The single-A Portland Rockies moved up the Columbia River to Pasco and became the Tri-City Dust Devils in 2001. In 2007, owner Merritt Paulson announced that he was considering changing the name of the team to prevent confusion with the Oregon State University teams from Corvallis. Possible…
Paulson (left) with Timbers GM Gavin Wilkinson in 2016
Paulson (right) with his daughter, and former Thorns FC player Allie Long in 2016