Palm Springs Stadium

Palm Springs Stadium in Palm Springs, CA, was the home of Palm Springs affiliated baseball from 1986 through 1993. After that, the Palm Springs Angels of the California League moved into an existing stadium in Riverside, CA, as the Riverside Pilots.

The ballpark wore the name Angels Stadium while the then-California Angels affiliate played there. It has hosted several other affiliated teams for a few weeks at a time for various reasons, including 20 games of the Riverside Pilots' final season; the Pilots became the Lancaster JetHawks in 1996.

Aside from a few Pacific Coast League exhibition games, that was its history in affiliated baseball - but it has also hosted professional ball both above and below that level: the big-league Angels' spring training took place here from 1961 through 1992 - the last team to hold spring training outside Florida or Arizona - and independent baseball after losing the Palm Springs Angels with the Palm Spring Suns of the Western Baseball League in 1995 and 1996.

Built in 1949, the ballpark was originally a polo grounds that also had a baseball field; its first event was a January 1950 rodeo.