Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index The Pioneer League is a minor league baseball league which operates in the Rocky Mountain region of the United States and Canada. It is a Rookie league. The Pioneer Baseball League began in 1939 with six teams in Idaho and Utah. The league suspended operations for the 1943 through 1945 seasons. In 1948, the league expanded into Montana. At that time, several of the teams were operating as minor league affiliates of Pacific Coast League teams, which were unsuccessfully trying to grow into a major league. When the Los Angeles Dodgers displaced the Hollywood Stars] PCL team, they moved to Salt Lake City, Utah, taking away the Pioneer League's largest market. By 1959, the league was down to six teams, and by 1964, there were only four, but by the end of the 1970s there were eight teams. The league is divided into a Northern Division and a Southern Division. Current member teams: Billings Mustangs - Northern Division Casper Rockies - Southern Division Great Falls White Sox - Northern Division Helena Brewers - Northern Division Idaho Falls Chukars - Southern Division Missoula Osprey - Northern Division Ogden Raptors - Southern Division Provo Angels - Southern Division This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.