The Pacific Coast League participates in minor league baseball.
Fresno Grizzlies (AAA -- Pacific Coast League); Richmond Flying Squirrels (AA -- Eastern League); San Jose Giants (A -- California League); Augusta Greenjackets (A -- South Atlantic League); Salem-Keizer Volcanoes (Northwest League); and Arizona Giants (Arizona Summer League).
The Giants moved from New York to San Francisco in time for the 1958 season. The 2014 season is the Giants' 57th on the West Coast.
PCL is the acronym for the Pacific Coast League, a minor league organization in the Pacific Northwest.
San Francisco Seals. They played in the PCL Pacific Coast League.
Las Vegas Gladiators, Arena Football League Las Vegas 51s, minor league Baseball Las Vegas Wranglers, East Coast Hockey League
There are two leagues in major league baseball, the American League and the National League. There are about 19 leagues in minor league baseball that include the Arizona League, Appalachian League, California League, Pacific Coast League, International League, and others.
Certainly- there was very good minor league baseball on the coast long before any major league expansion. The leagues were mostly, if not all, independent of the major league teams and so they did not readily give up their stars. Some players who probably could have played in the big leagues stayed on in Pacific Coast League teams because major league teams did not want to risk the cost of buying their contracts . Joe Dimagio played on the San Francisco Seals, I think, until the Yankees coughed up the money to buy his contract.
Major LeagueBaseball was first played on the West coast in 1958 by the Los Angeles Dodgers (who moved from Brooklyn) and the San Francisco Giants (who moved from New York City).
New Mexico has no major league professional sports teams. However the Albuquerque Isotopes is a minor league baseball team in the Class-AAA Pacific Coast League since 2003.
West Coast League was created in 2005.
Gulf Coast League was created in 1964.