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  Minor League Baseball: History: Top 100 Teams
San Francisco won its first PCL title in 1909 and the formation of the league is covered in the story of that team, Top 100 team #71.
San Francisco won its next championship in 1922 with Top 100 team #44 and the history of the team is updated in the report of that club.
San Francisco eked out a 9-8 win in the series finale, scoring the winning run in the eighth inning on a bloop single and the Seals could claim to be the best team in the minor leagues.
www.minorleaguebaseball.com /app/milb/history/top100.jsp?idx=10   (5774 words)

  
 Ballparks of Baseball-Seals Stadium
In 1930, Seals Stadium was constructed near downtown San Francisco.
The stadium was constructed for the Pacific Coast League’s San Francisco Seals and Missions.
Seals Stadium was demolished in November of 1959.
www.ballparksofbaseballpast2.8m.com /SealsStadium.htm   (331 words)

  
 San Francisco Seals (baseball) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The San Francisco Seals were a minor league baseball team which played in the Pacific Coast League from 1903 until 1957.
The Seals celebrated their inaugural year in Seals Stadium by winning the PCL pennant in 1931.
During the 1957 season, the New York Giants announced their move to San Francisco for the 1958 season, and the Seals were forced to relocate as a result.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/San_Francisco_Seals_(PCL)   (737 words)

  
 CNNSI.com - Minor League Baseball - SPORTSTICKER MINOR LEAGUE BASEBALL NOTE - Saturday June 30, 2001 07:45 AM
Since the PCL was outside the aegis of Organized Ball, the National Association upgraded the offended league to Class A status, renaming it the Pacific National League.
Strub, who had been an infielder for the San Francisco team in the outlaw California State League in 1903-04, was flamboyant and known as the "advertising dentist" because of his billboards and newspaper ads from which, one observer said, it was impossible to escape.
In 1920, Scott was 23-14, led the PCL in ERA (2.29) and was fourth in innings pitched.
sportsillustrated.cnn.com /baseball/minors/news/2001/44team   (3931 words)

  
 Pan Pacific San Francisco   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Pacific Heights, San Francisco, California - Pacific Heights is an affluent neighborhood of San Francisco, California, on the north side of the city.
San Francisco Seals (PCL) - The San Francisco Seals were a minor league baseball team which played in the Pacific Coast League from 1903 until 1957.
City of San Francisco - The City of San Francisco was a streamlined passenger train operated jointly by the Chicago and North Western Railway, the Southern Pacific Railroad, and the Union Pacific Railroad.
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 DIAMOND MIND BASEBALL
Offense was down in the PCL for a number of reasons including the fact that the balls the league used were not wrapped as tight as they should have been.
The Seals won their first pennant since 1935 and are considered one of the best teams in the history of the league.
San Diego outfielder Harry Elliott led the PCL with a.350 average and topped the PCL with 224 hits.
www.sportplanet.com /sbb/apfas/PCL.htm   (1670 words)

  
 CNNSI.com - Minor League Baseball - SPORTSTICKER MINOR LEAGUE BASEBALL NOTE - Tuesday November 27, 2001 12:20 PM
San Francisco won its first PCL title in 1909 and the formation of the league is covered in the story of that team, top team number 71.
San Francisco won its next championship in 1922 with top 100 team number 44 and the history of the team is updated in the report of that club.
Salt Lake, the leader for the first two weeks, provided the Seals with their only real challenge, but when the season was over San Francisco led the Bees by 12 1/2 games.
sportsillustrated.cnn.com /baseball/minors/news/2001/10team   (5688 words)

  
 Ballparks of Baseball-Seals Stadium-San Francisco Giants
San Francisco, CA Mainly a minor league ballpark during its existence, Seals Stadium served as the home of the San Francisco Giants for two seasons.
Seals Stadium had lights, but did not have a roof because temperatures were always comfortable and there was little rainfall.
When the New York Giants decided to move to San Francisco for the 1958 season they needed a ballpark to play while a new stadium was being constructed.
www.ballparksofbaseball.com /past/SealsStadium.htm   (296 words)

  
 The San Francisco Seals, 1946-1957
I suppose it could be of interest to current PCL fans, although so many of the former league cities have Big League clubs now, pretty much along the lines of the old league --- Seattle, Oakland, San Francisco, San Diego, and two in the Los Angeles area.
He was a Texan who had played in the PCL, and wouldn't re-sign with the big club, preferring to return to the Coast, which he did, never returning to the Majors.
Readers might be interested in some of the ownership/management aspects of the Seals in particular and the PCL in general.
www.thediamondangle.com /archive/apr03/pcl.html   (1465 words)

  
 Minor League Baseball: History: Top 100 Teams   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
In 1901, the San Francisco entry, known as the Wasps, won the pennant with a record of 95-66.
The Seals were managed by Danny Long, 42, who had been an outfielder with the Baltimore Orioles of the American Association in 1890 and for his hometown Oakland team in the old California League.
San Francisco went on to win many more pennants in the PCL over the next 48 years.
www.minorleaguebaseball.com /app/milb/history/top100.jsp?idx=71   (1515 words)

  
 SEALS STADIUM   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
When the Giants first moved to San Francisco they had to wait for their new ball park to be built.
Seals Stadium was built in 1931 for the Seals and Missions of the PCL.
The Seals became the sole tennant in 1938, when the missions move to Hollywood and became the Stars.
www.angelfire.com /ks/strikeout/sealsstad.html   (182 words)

  
 San Francisco Seals/Classic PCL teams (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.tamu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The Seals led the PCL with a modest.245 team average, and also led the league in runs (836), hits (1,685), doubles (292) and stolen bases (349).
The Seals led the minors in attendance (414,854) by a wide margin and in fact, outdrew six major league teams.
The 1946 Seals took spring training in Hawaii, the minimum player salary was set at $5,000 (the major league minimum).
www.tdl.com.cob-web.org:8888 /~thawley/pclgreat.html   (1485 words)

  
 San Francisco Seals - BR Bullpen
The Seals are perhaps best known for giving Joe DiMaggio (1932-1935) and his brother Dom (1937-1939) their start in the 1930's.
Sam Gibson (1931, 1934-1944) who was 210-123 led the PCL in W, ERA, and SO in 1931 and in ERA 1939, while Cack Henley (1905-1913) as 183-137 and led the PCL in W in 1910.
OF Smead Jolley (1925-1929) led the PCL in RBI and AVG in 1927, H in 1929, and won the Triple Crown in 1928.
www.baseball-reference.com /bullpen/San_Francisco_Seals   (378 words)

  
 Seals Stadium - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Seals Stadium was a minor league baseball stadium that stood in San Francisco from 1931 until 1959.
The stadium was originally built with three dressing rooms - one for the visiting team, and one for each of the minor league home teams, the San Francisco Seals and the Mission Reds a.k.a the San Francisco Missions.
In some years a live seal was kept in a water tank underneath the grandstand.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Seals_Stadium   (333 words)

  
 Seals Plaza Dedication Ceremony   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Then Dino Restelli, another former Seal, delivered a long and eloquent speech about his days as a Seal and how popular the Seals players were in San Francisco.
In those days, he said, the Seals were about the "only game in town" and the players were treated "like movie stars." Don Klein also spoke and joked about his first season broadcasting games (1949), when the team went from second place the year before all the way down to eighth place.
The statue is of a seal balancing a baseball, which was the Seals' most popular logo during their history.
www.eeeeeegp.com /articles/SealsCer.html   (703 words)

  
 Buy Jerseys San Francisco Seals. Largest Mall of Sports Products and Servise.fantasy baseball, baseball.
San Francisco Joined The Coast League In 1903, And From That Time Until Their Departure In 1957, They Were One Of The League's Most Colorful Franchises.
In 1952, the PCL was granted "Open" classification for the purpose of evolving toward major league status.
Of course, that dream died when the Dodgers and Giants moved West, robbing the PCL of their most lucrative markets, and returning it to an AAA designation.
baseball.sunmalls.com /jerseys/san-francisco-seals.html   (3454 words)

  
 Joe Di Maggio Dead at 84 - 1999
But the Seals' management, which wanted to sell his contract in 1934 for $100,000, settled for $25,000 and the services of five other ball players, when he went to the Yankees for the 1936 season.
The San Francisco News reported in March 1942 that Joe Di Maggio's elderly parents might be evacuated from San Francisco as enemy aliens.
However, Italian fishermen in San Francisco were not allowed to go into the bay, and many were forced to move away from the coast.
www.sfmuseum.org /hist10/dimagobit.html   (953 words)

  
 San Francisco Chronicle - SimCentral.NET Forums
SAN FRANCISCO - On the same day he purchased the San Francisco Seals, new owner and general manager Scott Jeffries has appointed his team's first coaching staff under the umbrella of the reborn Federal League.
Born and raised in San Francisco, the 58-year-old began his professional career with the Seals as a pitcher in 1919 before heading to the Yankees.
SAN FRANCISCO - When the Seals drafted Early Wynn in the 7th round, they knew he was a short-term solution.
forums.simcentral.net /showthread.php?t=53118   (1311 words)

  
 Amazon.com: San Francisco Seals (Images of Baseball): Books: Martin Jacobs,Jack McGuire   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
For more than half a century, San Francisco Seals baseball was a fertile source of future major league players, with a legacy firmly grounded in the annals of Pacific Coast League baseball.
This volume is a tribute to the Seals’ most memorable seasons in all their glory, and a keepsake book for generations to come.
No not the San Francisco Giants, but rather the San Francisco Seals who for half a century were the "toast" of San Francisco.
www.amazon.com /San-Francisco-Seals-Images-Baseball/dp/0738529850   (1364 words)

  
 Not a West Coast Thing - MLB never replaced the old Pacific Coast League in the Hearts of the Fans   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The PCL was even given special rights protecting their players from being drafted by MLB teams.
It was worse for the fans in the Los Angeles and San Francisco areas.
The Stars, Seals and Angels were forced to relocate to smaller markets and found even more competition from MLB games that were broadcast on a new technology known as television.
www.athomeplate.com /PCL.shtml   (736 words)

  
 San Francisco Seals Baseball Team   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The San Francisco Seals were a San Francisco professional baseball team that
Former Minor League Baseball Teams > San Francisco Seals in the...
The San Francisco Seals were a minor league baseball team which played in the
www.csdt.ca /san_francisco_seals_baseball_team.html   (199 words)

  
 Sports Hollywood - Vernon Tigers
They went to San Francisco and staged burlesque stunts at the ball yard where Vernon was playing.
PCL President William H. McCarthy beat Major League Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis by expelling Tiger first baseman Babe Borton, along with other players, from the league for suspected activities in the scandal.
As for "Fatty," he was out of baseball and finally getting some rest at the St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco, on September 5, 1921, when a party was held in his 12th floor suite.
www.sportshollywood.com /vernontigers.html   (1614 words)

  
 Field of Dreams
Many considered the PCL to be the west coast equivalent of the Major Leagues, and the Seals were one of the most respected franchises in PCL history.
Following solid seasons with the Seals in '41 and '42, Brovia's contract was purchased by the Chicago White Sox, but a draft notice from the U.S. Army put an immediate halt to his professional career.
Although not much defensively, Brovia was one of the most feared hitters in PCL history and was recently named to the all-time PCL team, based on his lifetime PCL batting average of.305 and 194 career homers.
www.santacruzpl.org /history/rec/baseb.shtml   (2640 words)

  
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SFGov: Visitors: Seal of the City and County of San Francisco There have been two seals in the history of San Francisco.
The Seal of the City of San Francisco was adopted on November 4, 1852 and was quite similar Page.
The San Francisco Seals were a minor league baseball team which played in the Pacific Coast of 1947 The of 1947.
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 Journal of San Diego History
When I came to San Diego, I was appreciative of the friendliness of those connected with the Padres.
During the 1957 season, the Padres were battling with San Francisco for first place in the PCL.
Joe Gordon was the Seals manager and it was raining hard at Lane Field.
www.sandiegohistory.org /journal/95winter/regalado.htm   (479 words)

  
 Services   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The stadium is located on the fringes of downtown, with the spectacular world class San Francisco skyline
What a marvelous job the Giants do in celebrating the glory that is baseball and their franchise's storied past.
with floor to ceiling memorabilia of the Seals, the PCL, and San Francisco baseball history.
www.thesportsroadtrip.com /sanfranciscogiants.html   (1376 words)

  
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 San Francisco Seals of 1947 -- Lefty O'Doul   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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