The Ogden Dodgers were a Minor League Baseball team based in Ogden, Utah . The Ogden Dodgers played as members of the Pioneer Baseball League from 1966 to 1973. The Ogden Dodgers were an affiliate of the Los Angeles Dodgers (1966–1973). Future Baseball Hall of Fame Manager Tommy Lasorda managed the team from 1966-1968.
7-578: The Ogden Dodgers started in 1966 when the Pocatello Chiefs moved to Ogden and changed their name. They won the Pioneer League championship their first four seasons in existence from 1966 to 1969. When the club lost its Dodgers affiliation after the 1973 season, they spent the 1974 season as the Ogden Spikers , a co-op team that featured players from six different Major League organizations. After
14-731: The Hiroshima Toyo Carp of the Nippon Professional Baseball . For the 1991 season, the team changed its name to the Pocatello Pioneers . The franchise to relocated to Lethbridge , Alberta , where they became the Lethbridge Mounties . Pocatello gained one more team in 1993, when the Salt Lake City Trappers - forced out by the move of a Class AAA Pacific Coast League team to the city - moved to town as
21-713: The Pocatello Bannocks started in 1952, originally as a St. Louis Browns affiliate for the first two years. In 1957, they changed their name to the Pocatello A's to reflect their new connection to the Kansas City Athletics , and then in 1960 to the Pocatello Giants as the San Francisco Giants took over as their affiliate. After a final season as the Pocatello Bannocks in 1961, they changed their name to
28-636: The Pocatello Chiefs in 1962 and remained under that name until they moved to Ogden, Utah , to become the Ogden Dodgers in 1966. Hall of Fame manager Tommy Lasorda managed the Chiefs in 1965. In 1984, baseball returned to Pocatello for two seasons, when the Lethbridge Dodgers relocated as the Pocatello Gems . This was the same team that had left in 1966. The Pocatello Giants were affiliated with
35-705: The San Francisco Giants for the 1988 and 1989 seasons; prior affiliation was with the Oakland A's . The home stadium was Halliwell Park , located on Alameda Drive. After the 1989 season the Giants ended their farm team affiliation with the franchise. The franchise became an independent/co-op team and was renamed the Gate City Pioneers for the 1990 season; that team featured players from the Montreal Expos and Chicago White Sox farm systems as well as minor league players from
42-523: The 1974 season, the franchise moved to Canada and became the Lethbridge Expos . This article about a baseball team in Utah is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Pocatello Chiefs Pocatello, Idaho , has been home to minor league baseball teams who competed in 35 seasons of Minor League Baseball , between 1900 and 1993. The Pocatello Indians played as members of
49-715: The Independent Utah-Idaho Intermountain League in 1900. The Pocatello Bannocks played in the Utah–Idaho League from 1926 to 1928. Pocatello's teams since then have played in the Pioneer League . The Pocatello Cardinals , an affiliate of the St. Louis Cardinals , played during the seasons of 1939–1942 and 1946–1951, as the league paused for three years during World War II . The Cardinals won two Pioneer League titles in 1942 and 1949. A new version of
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