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The Los Angeles Angels were a minor league baseball team based in Los Angeles, California that played in the "near-major league" Pacific Coast League from 1903 through 1957. The next year, Los Angeles became the host city to the first western Major League Baseball (MLB) team, the Los Angeles Dodgers, after the Brooklyn Dodgers moved to Los Angeles. This move brought MLB competition into PCL's region and it would eventually become a minor league affiliate of MLB. The Angels were the Dodgers' PCL affiliate in 1957 and transferred north in 1958 to Spokane, Washington, to become the Spokane Indians, the Dodgers' top affiliate for fourteen years, through the 1971 season. ==Team history== From 1903 through 1957, the Los Angeles Angels, a PCL team, were one of the mainstays of the Pacific Coast League, winning the PCL pennant 12 times. The Angels, along with the Portland Beavers, Oakland Oaks, Sacramento Solons, San Francisco Seals, and Seattle Indians were charter members of the Pacific Coast League which was founded in 1903. From 1903 through 1925, the team played at 15,000-seat Washington Park (also known as Chutes Park), just south of downtown Los Angeles. Both the team and the park were founded by James Furlong "Jim" Morley (1869-1940), an entrepreneur involved in bowling, prize fighting, billiards, and gemstones as well as baseball.〔Dennis Snelling, ''The Greatest Minor League: A History of the Pacific Coast League, 1903-1957'' (McFarland, 2012; ISBN 0786465247), p. 15.〕 During this time, the Angels (or Looloos〔Snelling, ''The Greatest Minor League'', p. 16.〕 or Seraphs as they were sometimes called), won pennants in 1903, 1905, 1907, 1908, 1916, 1918, and 1921. In 1918, the team finished second in regular season play, but won the postseason series against their cross-town rivals at the time, the Vernon Tigers. During the period 1915 to 1921, the Angels were owned by John F. "Johnny" Powers, Los Angeles socialite. The 1916 team was managed by Frank Chance, baseball Hall of Famer, noted as part of "Tinker to Evers to Chance" In 1921, the team was purchased by chewing-gum magnate William Wrigley Jr., the owner of the Chicago Cubs of the National League. When Wrigley could not get the city of Los Angeles to make the improvements to Washington Park he requested, he began construction of his own 21,000-seat stadium, appropriately named Wrigley Field, at 42nd Place and Avalon Boulevard in what is now known as South Central Los Angeles. The Angels began play at Wrigley in 1926, and responded by winning their eighth PCL pennant, finishing games ahead of the second-place Oakland Oaks. Wrigley Field was famous for being the setting for the show "Home Run Derby". The Seraphs won the pennant again in 1933. In 1934, they fielded what is regarded as one of the greatest teams in the history of baseball.〔http://www.minorleaguebaseball.com/app/milb/history/top100.jsp?idx=1〕 The 1934 Angels finished at 137-50 (.733) — games ahead of the Mission Reds on an annualized basis (the PCL used a split season format that year). They were so good that their opponent in the postseason series (which the Angels won) was an all-star team composed of players from the other seven PCL teams. The team won pennants in 1938, 1943, 1944, and 1947, with the 1943 team being considered among the best in league history. For the next eight years, however, the Angels struggled to remain mediocre at best. In 1949, the Seraphs finished in last place, for only the third time in 47 years. Then, after finishing third in 1955, the Angels won what would be their last pennant in the PCL in 1956. Led by their portly, popular first baseman Steve Bilko, the Seraphs finished 101-61 (.637), 16 games in front of the runner-up Seattle Rainiers. The franchise history after leaving Los Angeles includes stays in Spokane, Washington as the "Indians" from 1958–1971 and Albuquerque, New Mexico (where it assumed the name Albuquerque Dukes, a venerable baseball franchise name in the "Duke City") from 1972 to 2000. The franchise was sold and became the third incarnation of the Portland Beavers from 2000 to 2010. In 2010, the franchise was purchased by San Diego Padres principal owner Jeff Moorad, after the Portland City Council chose to build a new soccer-only facility over a proposed joint-use baseball and soccer stadium.〔"Portland City Council Approves Soccer Deal for PGE Park," The Oregonian, February 3, 2010. () Retrieved 02-20-2011〕 Moorad intended to have the team play in Escondido, California starting in 2013; however, those plans fell through.〔"Council votes to Bring Baseball to Escondido," San Diego Union-Tribune, December 15, 2010. () Retrieved 2-20-2011〕 The franchise was temporarily relocated to Tucson, Arizona for the 2013 season, and nicknamed the Tucson Padres.〔"Padres' Triple-A Club to play in Tucson in '11," San Diego Padres Official Website ()〕 In 2014, they moved to El Paso, Texas〔"Mayor decides against veto, baseball in downtown by 2014", KVIA () Retrieved 09-20-2012〕 where they are known as the El Paso Chihuahuas. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Los Angeles Angels (PCL)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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