Remembering the Rosebuds: The little-known legacy of Portland's African American baseball teams

In the early 1910s and the mid-1940s, Portland had baseball teams owned, coached and played by only African Americans. It’s part of a larger section of American history that’s preserved in museums and archives across the county, but the legacy tied to Portland’s teams has been lost outside of the writings of a few dedicated historians who worked to preserve the story. Because of this, artifacts and the deeper tales of their time in the city are mostly gone from the historical record.

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