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The Portland Rosebuds sometimes called the Portland Roses were a baseball team owned by Jesse Owens. The Rosebuds were part of the West Coast Baseball Association an all-black league headed by Abe Saperstein the owner of the Harlem Globetrotters.The Rosebuds played the Seattle Steelheads on their opening day May 12 1946 at Dudley Field in El Paso Texas.
