Portland PCL / NWL
The McCredies owned the Portland Beavers Pacific Coast League team and the Portland Colts Northwestern League team. Walter McCredie managed the Beavers. William Wallace McCredie was a judge, politician, and team co-owner. Photos of them are beneath the passes, Walter in 1906 at Spring Training and William Wallace in about 1910 on a day at the beach. Loads of similar material is on the website below if you're interested. As for the passes...
*The 1909 pass is Walter McCredie's pass to Northwestern League games.
*Walter's blue 1909 pass to Chicago Cubs games follows.
*Next is a 1913 Pacific Coast League pass that has a note by and the original signature of William Wallace McCredie.
*Last is a Portland 1918 pass to Pacific Coast International League games issued to the sports editor of Portland's Oregon Journal newspaper. The Beavers had been dropped from the Pacific Coast League. Weather, geography, train travel taxes, and Portland's low attendance were the reasons W.W. McCredie gave for their exclusion.
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