>> Merry Christmas to you also, SD Bob,
>>
>> The conversation turned to former Padre ballparks this week, and
>> Komet 17 said the first game he ever saw was at Westgate Park
>> in 1967 between the Padres and the TULSA Drillers!
>>
>> When the American Association folded after the 1962 season,
>> several of their teams joined the Pacific Coast League, and
>> that included Oklahoma City, Indianapolis and Arkansas. I
>> guess Tulsa must have come along later.
>>
>> Hoover
>
> Tulsa Drillers are still going strong. They are the Colorado Rockies A-
> Ball Club. You may have heard about their 1st base coach being struck
> and killed by a line drive earlier this season. The Rockies
> organization voted his family a full share from their World Series
> appearance. Very classy.
OK, so I had a suspicion I had the team name wrong, so I looked it up: it
was actually the "Oilers", not the "Drillers" while they were in the PCL
(1966 to 1968). They continued in the American Association from 1969 to
1976; the team moved to New Orleans in 1977, where they became the
"Pelicans." The team is now the Mets' AAA team and is known as the
"Zephyrs."
Komet17
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