Midland RockHounds Pitcher Raul Alcantara

Oh Well ... There Goes Our Perfect Season

The above is an actual newspaper headline, one we borrow annually on the occasion of the club's first defeat of the season (hey, it's gonna happen to every professional baseball team, sooner or later ... usually sooner). In 1966, the morning after the Seattle Angels lost their Pacific Coast League opener, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer ran the above headline. Seattle, by the way, went on to win the PCL title that year. The ... Full Story