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Baseball in the WestWild West | 3 comments | Print This Post | Email This Post Baseball was also played in Arizona’s territorial days. In fact, back in 1909 the Phelps Dodge mining company built a ballpark in Bisbee for the enjoyment of it employees, and it is still being used today. On June 27 of that year, a semi-pro Bisbee team turned back visitors from El Paso 8-3 at Warren Ballpark. After World War II, Arizona (which became a state in 1912) joined Florida as a site for spring training exhibition games for major league clubs. The so-called Cactus League continues to operate, but since 1998 a major league team, the Arizona Diamondbacks, has played all its regular-season home games in Phoenix. Up in Colorado, Denver got its first minor league (Western League) team, the Mountain Lions, in 1886, and the Mile High City finally landed a major league team, the Rockies, in 1993. Jet transportation (commercial or charter) has made travel relatively easy for major league teams today, but Eastern teams still often complain of tough Western road trips and their fans complain when the box scores from West Coast games don’t show up in the next day’s home-town newspapers. Subscribe Today
This article was written by Louis Hart and Gregory Lalire and is an online extra to the June 2007 issue of Wild West magazine. Pages: 1 2 3Help HistoryNet by bookmarking to
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3 Comments to “Baseball in the West”
The Alexandria mentioned in the article is in Louisiana, not Texas.
By Steve Mayeux on Oct 16, 2008 at 11:04 pm
cool
By keke penson on Apr 2, 2009 at 10:35 am
Warren Ballpark, in Bisbee, AZ, is still in use today. The home field for an outlaw team in the 1920s, the class D and C Bisbee Bees in the 20s, 30s and early 40s, the home field for the ‘47 Bisbee Yanks and the 1948-55 Bisbee-Douglas Copper Kings minor league teams, Warren ballpark is now the home of the Bisbee High School Pumas (five times AZ State champs!) and the Bisbee Copper Kings semipro club.
Join us for our centennial this July 5th. This ball park has an incredible history and history is still being made there. It is a time capsule that is to be experienced to be believed. A walk around sycamore-lined Vista Park will take you back to a different, better time. The ball park is awesome and the crowd is friendly. Visit http://www.friendsofwarrenballpark.com for more info. This is the real field of dreams *(Yes, the Black Sox played here in the outlaw Copper League!!
By Mike Anderson on Jun 2, 2009 at 9:50 pm