Bend Timber Hawks Kids Hoodies

Defunct Bend Timber Hawks Baseball 1978

The Bend Timber Hawks were, ever so briefly, a Central Oregon-based farm club of the Oakland Athletics. The franchise joined the Northwest League in 1978 as part of an expansion that saw the short-season Class A circuit expand from six to eight teams that summer. Bend had one previous experience with Minor League Baseball and the Northwest League. The Bend Rainbows had a two-year run in town in 1970 and 1971. That Timber Hawks would last only half that long.