Golden Baseball League Teams - Calgary Vipers, Chico Outlaws, Edmonton Capitals, Long Beach Armada, Na Koa Ikaika Maui, Orange County Flyers, Reno Si (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 19. Chapters: Calgary Vipers, Chico Outlaws, Edmonton Capitals, Long Beach Armada, Na Koa Ikaika Maui, Orange County Flyers, Reno Silver Sox (Golden Baseball League), Tijuana Cimarrones, Tucson Toros, Victoria Seals. Excerpt: The Tucson Toros are a professional baseball team based in Tucson, Arizona, in the United States. They are owned by Tucson Baseball, LLC with Jay Zucker as chairman of the board. Sean Smock is the team's general manager. The original Toros were a Triple-A minor league baseball team in the Pacific Coast League from 1969 to 1997, where they won the PCL Championship in 1991 and 1993. They were affiliated with several Major League Baseball teams over the years, most notably with the Houston Astros. The current Toros were created as a new team in the independent Golden Baseball League on September 1, 2008. They were originally the Mesa Miners (2005) and Reno Silver Sox (2006-2008) before being purchased by Tucson Baseball LLC and relocating to Tucson. The new Toros play their home games at Hi Corbett Field in Tucson, home of the original Toros team, starting May 21, 2009, at the start of the league's fifth anniversary. They played in the South Division in the GBL along with the Long Beach Armada, Orange County Flyers, St. George RoadRunners and Yuma Scorpions. (The expansion Tijuana Potros were supposed to play in the same division, but their season was postponed until 2010 due to the swine flu outbreak in Mexico.) The Toros have taken 2011 off due to the Triple A Tucson Padres playing across town during the season. They were expected to return to play and join the new North American League as early as 2012, but they announced on their website that they were playing their final game with members of the Yuma Scorpions taking on the Lake County Fielders on July 21, 2011. Tucson had a number of baseball teams between 1915 and 1958, including the Tucson Old Pueblos, the Tucson Waddies, the Tucson Cowboys (several teams), the Tucson Missions and the Tucson Lizards. None of these were part of the Pacific Coast League. When the last iteration of the Cowboys folded in 1958, Tucson was left with no professional baseball until the advent of the Toros. Hiram "Hi" Corbett, a former