Bend Bandits

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• Location: Bend, OR
• League: Western Baseball League, 1995-1998
• Affiliation: None
• Ballpark: Vince Genna Stadium

Team Bio

When Bend, OR ended its seventeen-year connection to the Northwest League after the 1994 season, the Western Baseball League placed a team there in its debut season as an independent league. The new team, known as the Bend Bandits, went 26-19 in the second half of their inaugural campaign to tie the Tri-City Posse for the best record. The Bandits lost a one-game playoff, though. That was the closest the team would come to a title. When the Western League shrunk from 8 teams to 6 in 1999, the Bandits were eliminated. Mark Charbonnet was perhaps the team's top player in their four-season history.

Year-by-Year Record

Year	League	Record	Finish	Manager	Playoffs	Pitching Coach
1995	Western Baseball League	48-43	1st North Division	Al Gallagher	Semi finals	Dennis Burtt
1996	Western Baseball League	39-50	4th North Division	Al Gallagher		Dennis Burtt
1997	Western Baseball League	39-51	3rd North Division	Al Gallagher
1998	Western Baseball League	43-46	2nd North Division	Wally Backman

Source: "The Western League" by W.C. Madden and Patrick Stewart