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| | Oregon Stadium Campaign :: History |
 | | They were teams with great names such as the Pioneers, Portland Spartans, the Monograms, the Highland Baseball Club, Slabtown, the Portland Gladiators or the Vancouver Occidentials, and they played a variety of base-ball in fields, towns, and cities in and around Portland. |
 | | Joe Buchtel was elected president of the five-team group that included the Pioneers, the Spartans of Portland, the Highland Base Ball Club, the Clackamas Club from Oregon City, and the Vancouver Occidentals, which included soldiers from the Ft. Vancouver garrison, with local civilians rounding out the Occidentals squad. |
 | | The outfield was Max Mueller, and Bob Brown, who would go on to be an owner of Vancouver, B.C., and president of the W-1 league. |
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