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The Spokane Indians are a minor league baseball team in the northwest United States, located in Spokane, Washington. A member of the short-season Class A Northwest League, they have been a farm team of the Texas Rangers since 2003. The Indians play home games at Avista Stadium, which opened in 1958 and has a seating capacity of 7,202. From 1958 through 1982, the Indians were in the Triple-A Pacific Coast League, except in 1972. The Indians have won twelve league titles, four in the PCL and eight in the NWL. The city has over a century of history in minor league baseball, dating back to the 1890s. ==Pacific Coast League== (1958–1971, 1973–1982) When the Los Angeles Dodgers moved from Brooklyn to the west coast in 1958, they moved their PCL affiliate, the Los Angeles Angels, north to Spokane. While with the Dodgers for fourteen seasons, the Indians won league titles in 1960 and 1970, and were runners-up in 1963, 1967, and 1968. In 1963, Spokane pitcher Bob Radovich threw a no-hitter against the Hawaii Islanders that ended on a bizarre note. With two out in the ninth inning, an Islander player drew a walk. Stan Palys came in to run for the batter. The next batter hit a grounder to first and Palys danced up and down till the ball hit him in the leg. Under baseball rules, Palys would have been called out but a base hit would have been recorded for the batter. Pacific Coast League President Dewey Soriano, who was in attendance that night on July 7, notified the press box that final out was to be credited to the first baseman and that Palys' conduct constituted "unsportsmanlike play". (Apparently, no base hit was credited on this play.) The 1970 Indians, managed by Tommy Lasorda; won 94 of 146 games () in the regular season to win the northern division by 26 games, then swept the Hawaii Islanders in four games in the PCL playoffs. The team included Bill Buckner, Steve Garvey, Bobby Valentine (PCL MVP), Tom Paciorek, Davey Lopes, Bill Russell, and Doyle Alexander.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=Baseball Reference )〕 Following the 1971 season, the club was moved south to New Mexico and became the Albuquerque Dukes. Spokane, which had been in the Northwest League for its first two seasons in 1955 and 1956, returned to the NWL in 1972 as a Dodger affiliate, but only for one season, as a new PCL franchise arrived in 1973 from Portland, and now the affiliate of the Texas Rangers. The 1973 team, which included Bill Madlock and Lenny Randle, won the west division by eleven games and swept Tucson in three games in the championship series. The following year's club successfully defended the title with another three-game sweep, this time over Albuquerque. The Indians' second stint in Triple-A lasted ten seasons and included affiliations with the Rangers, which changed to the Milwaukee Brewers in 1976, Seattle Mariners in 1979, and California Angels in 1982. Taking their first division crown since 1974, the Indians defeated Tacoma in the first round, but fell to Albuquerque in the championship series in six games. Soon after that season, the team moved south to Las Vegas and became the Stars, now the 51s. The team's general manager was Larry Koentopp, the former head coach and athletic director at Gonzaga. He was the leader of a local ownership group that purchased the team after the 1978 season. The team was purchased for $259,000 in 1978 and was sold in 1993 for $6.1 million. 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「Spokane Indians」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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