The Vancouver Mounties were a high-level minor league

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 baseball

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 club based in Vancouver, British Columbia. The Mounties played in the Pacific Coast League

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 from 1956

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 through 1962

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 as the relocated Oakland Oaks

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 franchise, and from 1965

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 through 1969

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 when the Dallas Rangers

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 moved back to Canada.

The Mounties were affiliated with a number of Major League Baseball

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 parent clubs: the Baltimore Orioles

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, Milwaukee Braves, Minnesota Twins

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, the Athletics

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 of both Kansas City and Oakland, and as a co-op club working with the Seattle Pilots

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 and Montreal Expos

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 in 1969

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1969 in sports describes the year's events in world sport.-Alpine skiing:* Alpine Skiing World Cup:** Men's overall champion: Karl Schranz, Austria** Women's overall champion: Gertrud Gabl, Austria-American football:...

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