64 Bevos

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[john]

the year before I saw my first beaver game! awesome photo, thanks mr. stump! should be almost time for spring training, but noooooooo! cue the haters in 5.4.3.2.1

[Joel]

You didn't even see a Beaver game until 1965, john? And you have the nerve to even talk about the glory days of the Bevos?

Really john, you obviously know nothing of Eddie Basinski and Geroge Freese, of cigar-chomping manager Tommy Heath, or the day when the PCL included the San Francisco Seals, Los Angeles Angels, and even the Hollywood Stars...when the PCL was actually in the Pacific States and not in Nashville, Memphis, and Iowa.

You know nothing of the days when the PCL was the defacto third major league. Back before you ever saw a Beaver game they used to actually pack Multnomah Stadium...I'm talking about crowds in five-figures. Bob Blackburn and Rollie Truitt helmed the Beaver Baseball Radio Network of stations all over the PNW...yes, even in Washington.

I thought that the way you longed for the Beavers that maybe you'd been around in the glory days...maybe even had seen a game or two at Vaughn Street. But no, you didn't even come along until after the Beavers had begun the long decline to 2010. Heck, the first Beaver failure was less than a decade away in 1972.

Sorry john, but you don't know squat about the Beavers.

[Pinky]

Yep! looks like you were right John! less than one day.

[Nancy]

John don't tolerate this bully Joel Miller. He is a loser.

[john]

yes pinky, a few on here are quite predictable, its sad but its the truth!

[UrbanGent]

Joel, in 64 there was not one player or team member except Rocky and John Lippon lefT from the teams we remembered in the 50's. Eddie Basinski was somewhat eccentric they called him spider because of his wide stance at home, long skinny legs and wiry arms but he was a gifted violinist, played for the symphony and gave concerts during games, could play every position plus the violin, and was a slugger who played in the big leagues in the 40's I would watch whole games parked to either the right or left side of the broadcast booth. Satchel Paige, the Bottler Bros, Joe Brovia, Luiz Marquez, etc etc etc, John, you definitely got short changed..... in fact I really would rather watch a AAA ball team in action like the Mavericks who grew in popularity as they went along (CIP: The Blasted Bastards of Baseball) as opposed to men in shorts kicking a ball around Why would a suburb of portland (the Hops) build a baseball stadium if there wasn't some dregs of interest in baseball? John, you might have a point, but excuse me if i don't hold my breath.

[Suzanne]

Well written Urban Gent. You can read the love of baseball in your writing. A very nice post without any viciousness.

[john]

hi nancy, you may have noticed quite some time ago, I stopped replying to old know it all joel, he is not worth the aggravation!..... UG, the thing that upsets me the most was, soccer was already in pge park for 30 years, but all of the sudden mr. Paulson had to make it a soccer only field! why? he should have just built his beloved timbers their own new park! and leave the beavers where they had been since 1955! I have been to ron Tonkin field, its a nicely done small baseball park, build for single A ball way out in the tulies! but I still want MY Multnomah/civic stadium/ pge park back for the AAA Portland beavers!

[Joel]

Careful Gent, you're talking facts and that equals hate....john, dinky and duncy say so.