Anyone want to make a case for the San Francisco Seals teams that won minor-league baseball's Pacific Coast League championship from 1943-46?

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The Pacific Coast League is now a MLB farm league with franchises in smaller cities like Albuquerque, N.

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Yes, those numbers were produced the hitter-friendly Pacific Coast League, but Wallace has been putting up big numbers at every level in the minors.

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Then there's America's postwar migration to the West Coast, which ultimately led to the demise of baseball's Pacific Coast League, then an independent entity some 2, 000 miles from the nearest major league city.

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The Mets selected the contract of infielder Omar Quintanilla from Triple-A Las Vegas of the Pacific Coast League, and he started at shortstop and batted ninth in the series finale against Yankees left-hander Vidal Nuno.

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Economist Fort likens the potential expansion of Major League Baseball to the Asia-Pacific market to its move to the West Coast in the 1950s.

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And sports economist Rodney Fort of Washington State University thinks it could be just a matter of time before the league has its own franchises in the Pacific Rim, now that the talent pool there has grown.

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For many years, the Maori have competed in the Pacific Cup and two years ago played an Australian Indigenous side ahead of the official opening ceremony of the 2008 Rugby League World Cup match in Sydney.

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