The Salt Lake City Trappers were a Minor League Baseball team of the Rookie level Pioneer League from 1985 to 1992. They were located in Salt Lake City, Utah , and played their home games at Derks Field . The Trappers were not affiliated with any Major League Baseball team. They won the Pioneer League championship four times: in three consecutive seasons from 1985 to 1987 and again in 1991.
4-761: In 1985, the Rookie Calgary Expos , an affiliate of the Montreal Expos , relocated from Calgary, Alberta , to Salt Lake City to make room for the Calgary Cannons of the Triple-A Pacific Coast League . The Trappers' ownership group included actor Bill Murray , who held a five percent stake in the team with Richard Knopf. The team is best known for winning 29 consecutive games in 1987 to establish an all-time record for all of professional baseball . Memorabilia from
8-905: The Canadian city of Calgary , Alberta , from 1979 to 1984. The team was a member of the Pioneer League , playing at the Rookie League level. Calgary and the Medicine Hat A's had joined the Pioneer League as expansion teams in 1977. At the time, Calgary was affiliated with the St. Louis Cardinals , and the team was the Calgary Cardinals . Calgary picked up the Expos moniker in 1979, when they switched affiliations to
12-688: The Montreal Expos . The Expos later relocated to Salt Lake City, Utah , to become the Salt Lake City Trappers in 1985 to make room for the Calgary Cannons of the Pacific Coast League . The Expos qualified for the playoffs twice, losing to the Butte Copper Kings 3–2 in the 1981 league championship series, and losing to the Billings Mustangs 3–1 in the 1983 series. This article about
16-643: The 1987 squad is on display at the Baseball Hall of Fame . The team relocated to Pocatello, Idaho , in 1993 as the Pocatello Posse before moving to Ogden, Utah , as the Ogden Raptors in 1994. This article about a baseball team in Utah is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Calgary Expos The Calgary Expos were a minor league baseball team located in
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