When Scot Shields appears in a game in an Angels uniform in 2010, he will be the final player from the 2004 squad still on the team (assuming that Robb Quinlan is not re-signed).
The Anaheim Angels became the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim prior to the 2005 season.
Scot Shields is the final Anaheim Angel.
Trivia: Who were the last players on the California Angels and the Los Angeles Angels to appear in an Angels game.
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I really hope Shields stays an Angel the rest of his career
~MMP~ - December 28, 2009
I completely Agree
Especially is he bounces back and is able to be a good set up man. I’m wishing that someday Shields is the bridge to Jepsen in the 9th.
ryanfea - December 28, 2009
that all depends on how he does this year...
if he still has it, Im sure we’ll resign him….
BryanHarvey'sMoustache - December 28, 2009
TRIVIA ANSWER: Garrett Anderson was the last California Angel...
And if Im not mistaken GA and Darin Erstad were the only ones to go through all the name changes from 1996—the last year as the California Angels to 2005—the first year as the LAAoA. Timmy missed it by one year.
I always liked the California Angels name. However, if you believe in voodoo, it seems to be cursed since we have done much better since the name changes…
BryanHarvey'sMoustache - December 28, 2009
The last LA Angel is a little tricky.
Fregosi was the last one with continuous service until he was traded for Ryan. However, Paul Schall was traded, but then came back for one more season in ’74 or ’75. So, I guess the right answer is Schall.
sothball - December 28, 2009
Los Angeles Angels
Name change was announced in a press release in late August of 1966. Players were still the Los Angeles Angels in mid-66.
Does that change your answer?
Rev Halofan - December 28, 2009
Rodgers and Fregosi both played as LA Angels and Cali Angels...
BryanHarvey'sMoustache - December 28, 2009
No. I'd still have to answer with Schall.
sothball - December 28, 2009
Tom Egan. See my post way below.
Stirrups - December 29, 2009
Drat. Foiled again.
I recall Egan as a rather typical decent defense, no offense catcher.
sothball - December 29, 2009
Kinda of like Mathis, 'cept without the hype.
Stirrups - December 29, 2009
...and I don't recall Egan playing catch with the CF...
…(Reichardt? Johnstone? Rivers?)
sothball - December 29, 2009
Try to recall:
Jose Cardenal
Vic Davalillo
Jay Johnstone
Sprinkle in some Tony Gonzalez and Morris Nettles. Finish up with Mickey Rivers.
Stirrups - December 29, 2009
The final game as the Los Angeles Angels (not including "of Anaheim") was September 1, 1965.
On September 2, 1965 they played their first game as the California Angels.
Stirrups - December 28, 2009
65 or 66?
Rev Halofan - December 28, 2009
1965.
Baseball Almanac has a fun trivia note at the bottom of their team page.
Stirrups - December 28, 2009
there would be an argument
over whether they should be called the Southern California Angels or the California Angels. Also before the move to Anaheim, Long Beach was a possible destination for the Angels, but Long Beach wanted the naming rights for the team (the Long Beach Angels). Gene Autry didn’t like the sound of the Long Beach Angels and decided Long Beach would not be the city of choice. Anaheim would be chosen in 1964 and would be the smallest city in the American League to have a major league franchise.
princeton11loveshalos - December 28, 2009
Did Fregosi last longer than Buck Rodgers?
I know he stuck around for awhile.
BryanHarvey'sMoustache - December 28, 2009
So did Clyde Wright and Aurelio Rodriguez...
…but I think Schall is the answer.
sothball - December 28, 2009
when did Ken McMullen come in?
salmonforever - December 28, 2009
IIRC, McMullen didn't come to the Angels until '70 or '71.
He was part of a big trade wit the Dodgers in ’72? I recall it was the trade where the Angels got Valentine and Singer.
sothball - December 28, 2009
McMullen came to the Angels in early '70 from the Senators
for Reichart and Rodriguez. He was sent to the Dodgers in Nov. ’72 with Messersmith for Robinson, Singer, Valentine, Grabarkewitz and Strahler.
Hoppity Hooper - December 29, 2009
What I recall about McMullen...
…I’d no sooner started liking the guy then he was traded again to those hated cross-town rivals.
sothball - December 29, 2009
Salmon played in 2006
you are RIGHT about Garret being the final California Angel.
Rev Halofan - December 28, 2009
oh shit you're right...
So Timmy, Erstad, and GA…all three name changes…
BryanHarvey'sMoustache - December 28, 2009
3 of 4
none of the three were born when they were the original LA Angels.
Rev Halofan - December 28, 2009
right....
i meant CA to AA to LAA
BryanHarvey'sMoustache - December 28, 2009
Team name
The LA Angels were almost the laughing stock of baseball – The LA Angels of Anaheim are the laughing stock owned by an egomaniac who does not know the difference between Anaheim and LA. He only has two goals – to rid all remembrance of the 2002 team , and be better than the Dodgers. The Only Angel team with greatness was the Anaheim Angels owned by Disney. We need a new owner!!
Anaheim Angel Fan - December 30, 2009
Actually...
“The Los Angeles Angels”, a minor league franchise that was never a part of the current Halo organization (other than sharing a few players in the earlier decades), was most definitely NOT the laughing stock of baseball. Until the Padres A team this season, the original LAA AAA team had two of the greatest minor league seasons – and acknowleged minor league teams – in all of history. I think it was the 1934 and 1956 squads. That first team was so friggin’ awesome, that when the final championship series for the national AAA title was held, the LAA was matched up against a team of All-Stars from the rest of AAA baseball! And they beat them, too!
Stirrups - December 30, 2009
Ditto that..
Kudos on knowing your stuff.
agent_99 - January 4, 2010
Shields also last 2002 Angel still on the roster
Riverrun - December 28, 2009
garret anderson was last cal. angel.
TheAngelsColts - December 28, 2009
GA was the last player to wear the CA Angels uni and play as a Halo, and
Tom Egan was the last player to wear the original LA Angels uni and play as a Halo. Egan’s last game as a Halo was June 15th, 1975.
Stirrups - December 28, 2009
Rev, your poll is incomplete
(Also, I can’t believe you’re dredging this up again after all the dirt we kicked around about it last year.)
You’re missing an option. The first that came to mind for me, and the one that most encapsulates the feelings of those who’ve been 714 their whole lives:
Did more harm than good, but will soon do more good than harm.
Someone who is sober could word that better or more economically, but let me explain anyway, because the internet is somehow less discerning than talk radio: the butt-of-jokes option and the more harm option applies initially, and at this point I feel like we’re at an equilibrium. During the 2009 season I noticed broadcasters still taking their jabs or pretending to accidentally call them the California Angels or what have you. At this point in time, however, we’ve reached the impetus that I would like to think Arte had in mind when that Arizona native concocted this absurd name: the media is starting to simply drop the last two words of the team’s name.
For the record, I have never said all the words of this team’s legal name in their proper order. And I’ve never typed them, either. And I never will. Another thing I’ll never do is wish Arte removed as the owner of this ball club. He may not have understood that we who’ve lived in North County all our lives are pretty proud of this little spot, but he’s done a lot more good than harm, and that’s no mistake.
He wanted to turn this very excellent ball club and coaching staff into a national brand. And he’s on the way to making that happen. Which is fine to me, except for the fact that if he actually succeeds I will no longer have this First Class team just down the road that I can go see at a discounted price a third of the time.
But then again, I like seeing the seats filled. Even if that makes it harder for me to jockey for a better seat. Because when Mike Witt signed that ball to me at the age of 3 I no longer had a choice as to what ball club I belonged to, so it might as well grow in glory and standing.
Yeah, I want my club to be taken seriously. And Arte took a few steps backward in 2005 towards that goal. But in the next few years his decision may take us a few steps forward. That is what I mean by my suggestion of an incomplete poll.
And now back to my Belvenie, DoubleWood, 12 year old, single malt, nightcap.
Cheers.
Zoe Necrosis - December 28, 2009
i like bud light
b u u u r p
clover_black - December 28, 2009
single malt
“Don’t pour out the rotgut… I have a marketing plan…”
Rev Halofan - December 28, 2009
You're thinking of blended scotch...
thetooth - December 29, 2009
My counter-argument is uh…
It’s a stupid name and you know it.
brokenyard - December 28, 2009
Wait...
I dont get this:
You’re saying that you wont be able to see them at a discounted price and NOT implying that Arte is going to up and move them right?
BryanHarvey'sMoustache - December 29, 2009
Uh, right
I see where you get the inference. I was not implying that the team is going anywhere, nor do I suspect that’s going to happen in 2017.
Zoe Necrosis - December 29, 2009
That's Balvenie!
I prefer the 21 year old Balvenie to the 12 year old Balvenie. Pocketbook concerns limit me to one 21 year old Balvenie bottle a year. Separately 21 and 12 are not a palindrome, but I will take the time to wish you Happy Palindrome Day on 01-02-2010.
Yetijuice - December 28, 2009
And when Shields is gone,
were down to Sosh…
unless we pick up Wash ;)
How difficult it is to replace the synergy that was the Anaheim Angels of 2002…
Raaddad - December 28, 2009
Here is my list for those who played for the original LAA and The California Angels………..
Jim Fregosi, Dean Chance, Albie Pearson, Bob Rodgers, Joe Adcock, Bob Lee, Bobby Knoop, Paul Schall, Rick Reichardt, Vic Power
Canada Angel - December 29, 2009
hmm that picture looks oddly familiar to me.......
norcaliangelsfan - December 29, 2009
Just out of curiosity
since baseball can be a superstitous and ritualistic game, let us look at the Angels history of winning the World Series and the geographical names of each Angels team that won it.
Since we all know it’s Anaheim, let us pretend that a California Angels won the WS first. Do you think there would have ever been any complaining when the team switched to Anaheim because of the historical facts of winning a WS as the CA Angels?
Now let’s hope this doesn’t happen, but say the LAAof A never wins a WS, how many years would it take before the name goes back to the magical Angels team and the only one to win a WS?
let us look at how the overall teams will be remembered:
LA Angels
California Angels
Anaheim Angels
LA Angels of Anaheim
Fill in the blanks…
Dono Romantico - December 29, 2009
capitalists are not superstitious
like that.
Rev Halofan - December 29, 2009
Great post
100% agree – The real winners were and always will be The Anaheim Angels
Anaheim Angel Fan - December 30, 2009
Was Bilko the last PCL LA Angel?
red floyd - December 29, 2009
good question
Does Gene Mauch count?
Rev Halofan - December 29, 2009
Nope.
It will take me some time to verify, but I suspect that the last game in a Major League Halos uniform played by any player who once wore the PCL Los Angeles Angels uni might be Larry Sherry.
Sherry played on the 1957 PCL LA Angels. He concluded his big league career pitching 1 1/3 innings of relief for the California Angels in a losing cause against the Cleveland Indians on July 7th, 1968.
Stirrups - December 29, 2009
LA Angels of Anaheim
I like the name Los Angels Angels but not so much the Anaheim part. Arte Moreno is an advertising man and understands things that many fans don’t. I think he did it not so much to attract fans from LA but to be able to sign players from the Caribbean and Latin America. Players there don’t know the name Anaheim but they do know Los Angeles and they can tell their friends and relatives that they are going to play in Los Angeles.
Big Bob - December 30, 2009
i have NO problem with the name
if there was never any history of this franchise with that name, then i’d have a problem. the name of the franchise was named after “the city of Angels” right? then the storied dodgers came and took over everything. so many people ignore our historical tie to the city of LA, even if it was as a minor league affiliate for the great majority. i like to take pride in being the oldest pro franchise originally from these parts, but that’s just me.
i thought the move by Arte was genius. Since Arte can’t mention “Los Angeles” or print it on the uniform, i’m content with the constant use of “The Angels” as an interpretation of “los angeles.” not only that but it pisses doyer fans off and the fact that we’ve been the better franchise for the new century.
Rev, didn’t you mention some open land in La Mirada? wouldn’t put it past Arte.
SCHalo - December 30, 2009
hell of a bargaining chip
ARTE’S MESSAGE TO OC MOVERS AND SHAKERS IN 2015: I will move the team seven miles away and build a state of the art stadium. Anaheim as well as Orange County will suffer the loss of revenue as it will be on the LA side of the county line, but the fan base will simply switch offramps. So how about someone give me what I want in order to stay put.
Rev Halofan - December 30, 2009
that is is a mega chip
2015 will be here quick too. yikes
SCHalo - December 30, 2009
15 miles.
He moves the team north up the 57 fwy to Anshutz’ new sports complex and builds his stadium there, in Diamond Bar. LA County.
Stirrups - January 1, 2010
By the way...
I believe GA is still the correct answer to the California Angels trivia, but technically, if there’s an LA Angel who played against the Halos, he could be the the last player on “the Los Angeles Angels to appear in an Angels game”.
Note that the trivia question does not specify that the player in question had to be playing for the Halos at the time.
red floyd - January 4, 2010
i always try to word quesiotns to avoid such technicalities
you got me that time.
Rev Halofan - January 4, 2010
I stick with Larry Sherry. His MLB career lasted into much later years than others.
So I still say that Larry Sherry was the last PCL LAA player still playing in the bigs, and he finished his career as a Halo.
Stirrups - January 5, 2010
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