Super Rare Portland Rockies Official Minor League Majestic Genuine  Merchandise Reversible Away and home game Baseball Jersey.

Pre-owned mint condition only displayed as part of a collection of Baseball Jerseys.

See photos for exact size.

Laying flat

A/A 29 inches = 38 inch chest

Length from.top.of collar to bottom 30.5-32 inches

Background

The Portland Rockies were a popular Northwest League farm club of the National League’s Colorado Rockies for six summers between 1995 and 2000. The franchise previously operated as the Bend Rockies from 1992 through 1994.

At the conclusion of the 1993 season, the Class AAA Portland Beavers of the Pacific Coast League (PCL) left town for Salt Lake City. Portland was a classic triple-A size market, but when no new PCL franchise materialized within the next year, Bend Rockies Jack Cain swooped in with his Class A club in September of 1994. Cain was a Portland native who grew up watching the original Beavers play at Civic Stadium. He was also a veteran Northwest League operator who, along with his wife Mary, had run the Bend franchise for 14 seasons since buying the team for $63,000 in 1981.4

The Rockies were an immediate hit in Portland during the summer of 1995. The team’s opening night crowd of 19,658 shattered the Northwest League’s single-game attendance record. For the 1995 season, Portland drew 249,696 fans, obliterating the league’s previous full-season record of 156,950 fans set by the Boise Hawks just a year earlier. The Rockies would re-establish the total season attendance record again in 1996 with 249,995 fans through the Civic Stadium turnstiles.

In Competition

The Portland Rockies won the 1997 Northwest League championship, besting the Boise Hawks 3 games to 2 in a best-of-five playoff series. The Rockies returned to the championship series in 1999 as well, but were swept by the Spokane Indians in three games.

Notable future Major League stars to come through Portland during the Rockies era included:

Pitcher Jake Westbrook (Rockies ’96)

Shortstop Chone Figgins (Rockies ’98)

Outfielder Juan Pierre (Rockies ’98)

Outfielder Brad Hawpe (Rockies ’00)

Pitcher Jason Jennings, who made two appearances for Portland in 1999, won the National League’s Rookie of the Year Award with Colorado in 2002.

Infielder Clint Barmes (Rockies ’00) was the last active Portland Rockies player in professional baseball, appearing in his final Major League game with the San Diego Padres in October 2015.