Palm Springs Angels

The Palm Springs Angels were a minor league baseball team of the Class A California League from 1986 to 1993 and an affiliate of the California Angels (now the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim). They relocated to Lake Elsinore, California after the 1993 season and are now the Lake Elsinore Storm.

The team was brought to this desert city in 1986 (formerly the Redwood Pioneers), where the major league team under country music legend and team owner Gene Autry had the Angels use Palm Springs as a spring training camp in Palm Springs Stadium, built in 1950 was renovated in the late 1990s for other minor league teams.

Although average game attendance was below average of the league in the late 1980s, the P.S. Angels picked up on fans in the early 1990s, when stadium attendance records surpassed the 100,000 mark in 1992 and again in 1993. The last team owner, Ken Stickney in The Desert Sun interview stated the P.S. Angels' move was due to a lack of city council support to approve a new minor league ballpark, after the California Angels gone to a new spring training facility in Tempe, Arizona.

Today, Palm Springs and the Coachella Valley has more population. Some local baseball fans eyed on a future four-team winter league, as well the collegiate-level team Palm Springs Power (2004-) fared better in fans, media and renevue than the minor league Angels.

There's rumor of a new minor league team, the Palm Springs Halos in the independent Golden Baseball League as its namesake dedicates the city's past association with the major league Angels. Fact|date=September 2007 The Palm Springs area was granted a team, the Palm Springs Chill of the Arizona Winter League for the 2007-08 season. Fact|date=April 2008

P.S. Angel alumni includes Pete Rose Jr. son of baseball great Pete Rose, J.T. Snow, Tim Salmon, Garrett Anderson and Jim Edmonds.