baseball

Hillsboro Is Optimistically Vying to Host the Major League Baseball All-Star Game

It’s a long shot. And they know it.

In the 1940s, Portland Was Briefly Home to an All-Black Baseball Team Called the Rosebuds. This Year, They’re Coming Back.

Seven decades ago, Portland baseball fans piled into the long-since-demolished Vaughn Street Park for what would turn out to be a fleeting experience: a contest between two teams made up entirely of Black players.

The Portland Pickles Plan to Play Baseball in Lents Without a Crowd

The Portland Pickles—Portland’s favorite collegiate woodbat baseball club—are planning to play without crowds this summer, and broadcast them online.

Catch a Foul Ball and Hug a Hop at Hillsboro’s Minor League Baseball Stadium

The 4,500-seat Ron Tonkin Field has all the amenities of a super-sized stadium and sits right along Highway 26, which means you can practically smell the ballpark dogs just driving by.

The Portland Pickles Are Holding Public Tryouts to Find a Player to Join the Team for Their First-Ever Game in Mexico

The Portland Pickles, our local collegiate summer ball club, is searching for a player to fill an open roster spot and play in an upcoming exhibition game in Mexico.

Portland Baseball Backers Pledge to Use Union Workers at a Possible Stadium

In a press conference today, the Portland Diamond Project signed a labor peace agreement that will allow workers at a potential stadium to be union workers.

The Portland Pickles Will Attempt to Solve the Mystery of the D.B. Cooper Skyjacking During a Game This Weekend

This Sunday, June 23, Lents’ own Portland Pickles are having a night dedicated to D.B. Cooper, the pseudonym of the man who, 1971, hijacked a Boeing 727 somewhere between Portland and Seattle, stole $200,000 in ransom money and parachuted away, never to be seen again.

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