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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.

How the Chicago Blackhawks Took Pro Hockey From Portland

Only ten years after putting their name on the Stanley Cup, the Portland Rosebuds pro hockey team were already gone.

How 100 Years Ago the Portland Rosebuds Became the First American Team Engraved on the Stanley Cup

Welcome to another edition of Hortland, in which WW freelancer Jay Horton unearths one of olden Portland’s most obscure or beautiful or non-trivially interesting historical remnants, and then leaves it out to rust in the sun. Before Portland won the the MLS Cup, before there were Cannabis Cups, the silver chalice of Lord Stanley gleamed as … Continue reading How 100 Years Ago the Portland Rosebuds Became the First American Team Engraved on the Stanley Cup

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