Spokane Indians are a Minor League Baseball team located in Spokane Valley, the city immediately east of Spokane, Washington, in the Pacific Northwest.
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15 Facts About Spokane Indians
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The Spokane Indians are members of the High-A Northwest League as an affiliate of the Colorado Rockies.
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The Spokane Indians region has over a century of history in Minor League Baseball, dating back to the 1890s.
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The nickname Indians dates to 1903, when Spokane joined the Pacific National League, a predecessor to the Pacific Coast League and, at Class A, an elite minor league of the period, equivalent to Triple-A today.
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In 1937, Spokane Indians became a charter member of the Class B Western International League, the predecessor of the Northwest League.
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Spokane Indians was a charter member of the Northwest League, which debuted in 1955 as a Class B league.
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In 1946, the WIL Spokane Indians were victims of the worst transit accident in the history of American professional sport.
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The Spokane Indians' vehicle veered off the road and down an embankment, then crashed and burst into flames.
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Spokane Indians, relying on players loaned from other teams, managed to finish the season and placed seventh in the league.
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Beth Bollinger of Spokane Indians wrote a novel titled Until the End of the Ninth, which is based on the true story of the 1946 bus crash and its aftermath.
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Spokane Indians, which had been in the Northwest League for its first two seasons in 1955 and 1956, returned to the NWL in 1972 as a Dodger affiliate, but only for one season, as a new PCL franchise arrived in 1973 from Portland, becoming the affiliate of the Texas Rangers.
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Spokane Indians was the leader of a local ownership group that purchased the team after the 1978 season.
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Spokane Indians won the east division, then beat league-leading Vancouver on the road in games four and five of the championship series to win the title.
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In 2008, the Spokane Indians captured their eighth league title with a thrilling four-game series victory over the Salem-Keizer Volcanoes.
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In conjunction with Major League Baseball's restructuring of Minor League Baseball in 2021, the Spokane Indians were organized into the High-A West along with five other teams previously of the Northwest League.
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