Portland Rosebuds
Portland Rosebuds is the name of at least three professional teams based in Portland, Oregon during the first half of the 20th century. Two were professional men's ice hockey teams playing their home games at the Portland Ice Arena, one from 1914 to 1918 and another in 1925-6. The third was a 1946 baseball team that played in the short-lived West Coast Baseball Association.
[edit] Hockey
The first Portland Rosebuds played in the Pacific Coast Hockey Association from 1914 to 1918. They had moved from New Westminister, BC. The New Westminster Royals had played in the PCHA in its first 3 season 1911-12 to 1913-14. They won the first ever PCHA Championship, but did not challenge for the Stanley Cup. The team was moved to Portland due to poor attendance and a larger arena in Portland. In 1916 the Portland Rosebuds became the first United States-based team to participate in the Stanley Cup Finals.
The second Rosebuds team was born when the Regina Capitals moved to Portland for the 1925-26 WHL season, the final one for the Western Hockey League (WHL).
When the league folded, the Saskatoon players were sold to form the Montreal Maroons. Frank Patrick then negotiated the sale of the rest of the WHL players to the National Hockey League. The players were to be sold as three teams, one from the Victoria Cougars, one from the Rosebuds, and a third from the best players from Calgary, Edmonton and Vancouver. A deal was reached where the players of the Rosebuds were sold for $100,000 to form the new Chicago Black Hawks expansion franchise.[1]
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[edit] Baseball
The Portland Rosebuds was also the name of a team owned by Jesse Owens.[2] The Rosebuds were part of the West Coast Baseball Association, an all-black league headed by Abe Saperstein, the owner of the Harlem Globetrotters.[2]
The Rosebuds played the Seattle Steelheads on their opening day, May 12, 1946 at Dudley Field in El Paso, Texas.[3] They followed opening day with two more days of games in El Paso and one in nearby Ciudad Juárez.[3]
The league was disbanded after only two months.[2][3]
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[edit] References
Specific references:
- ^ Whitehead, Eric (1980). The Patricks, hockey's royal family. Toronto, Ontario: Doubleday Canada. pp. 152, 157. ISBN 0-385-15662-6.
- ^ a b c "West Coast Baseball Association". Organizing Black America: An Encyclopedia of African American Associations. BookRags. 2005–02–10. http://www.bookrags.com/tandf/west-coast-baseball-association-tf/. Retrieved 2010-07-31.
- ^ a b c Milan Simonich (July 12, 2010). "Sun City home to the Negro Leagues for one weekend". Hidden El Paso. El Paso Times. http://www.elpasotimes.com/ci_15493851. Retrieved 2010-07-31.
General references:
- Coleman, Charles (1964). The Trail of the Stanley Cup, vol. 1, 1893-1926 inc.. National Hockey League.
