Go to Linfielder Art Larrance’s Raccoon Lodge on Southwest Beaverton-Hillsdale in the Raleigh Hills part of Portland to see Linfield Baseball History on display. The NAIA World Series banner, won by the Roy Helser-coached 1966 Linfield Wildcat baseball team is on a lodge wall. The team, of which Larrance was a catcher, was the first in the college’s history to win a national title. A rendition of the banner is on display (next to a rendition of the 1971 Linfield baseball team World Series banner) on a wall in Ted Wilson Gym on the Linfield campus in McMinnville.
National
Championship Banner
Linfield College 1966 Baseball Team
Linfield College 1966 Baseball Team
About This
Banner:
This
banner hung in Riley Gym at Linfield College until the
gym was replaced by the new Wilson Gym.At that
time all the National Championship banners wereReplaced with
a standard banner style. This banner was purchased by
Art Larrance from the Linfield Athletic Department
for a donation of $100.
Photos taken
by Wildcatville 12/18/2014 (Art Larrance
on the right, Bob Ferguson on the
left) after a Linfield Cardinal Circle lunch at Raccoon Lodge. On the same day,
Art shows a placard promoting the World Series (held in St. Joseph, Missouri)
in which Linfield won its 1966 title. Photos taken 12/19/2014 show renditions
of the Linfield Athletics Hall of Fame member 1966 and 1971 Linfield Baseball teams NAIA World Series banners. The
1971 team was coached by Ad Rutschman.
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