The Children of Vaughn: The Story of Professional Baseball in Portland, Oregon (1901-2010)This history of the Portland Beavers reads like a nightmare of economic failure in a field of dreams. The roots of baseball in Portland, Oregon go deep. In telling the story of baseball as it grew up before turning fallow in Portland, Terry Simons finds a balance between fact and fiction that is a sometimes humorous history, and a telling truth about the way things once were, or could have been. Read this book, absorb its message and remember the next