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Thriving under strong local ownership, the PCL expanded to eight teams in 1919. A 200-game March-to-October schedule was the PCL norm, producing extraordinary season statistics such as Tony Lazzeri's 60 home runs and 222 RBI for Salt Lake City in 1925.
In the years following WWII, supported by minor league
attendance records set in 1946-47 at San Francisco, Oakland, and Los Angeles during
close pennant races, a strong movement developed to grant the PCL major league status.
Open Classification, just a step below major league level, was obtained in 1952.
However, the transfer of the Dodgers and Giants in 1958 robbed the PCL of its largest
cities and ended its major league aspirations.
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Jim Coates 1932- ;RHP 1956, 59-63, 65-67 Yankees , Senators, Reds, Angels ;683 ip, 43-22, 4.00.
WS 3, 13 ip, 0-1, 4.15.
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