{"id":22920,"date":"2014-08-04T14:16:16","date_gmt":"2014-08-04T14:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/funwhileitlasted.net\/?p=22920"},"modified":"2026-03-17T11:18:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T15:18:10","slug":"1962-1978-quad-city-angels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funwhileitlasted.net\/2014\/08\/04\/1962-1978-quad-city-angels\/","title":{"rendered":"Quad City Angels (1962-1978)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a class=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/funwhileitlasted.net\/midwest-league-baseball\/\">Midwest League (1962-1978)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"responsive-tabs\">\n<h2 class=\"tabtitle\">Tombstone<\/h2>\n<div class=\"tabcontent\">\n\n<p><strong>Born:<\/strong> 1962 &#8211; Affiliation change from Quad City Braves<strong><br \/>\nAffiliation Change: <\/strong>1979 (Quad City Cubs)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Midwest League Champions:\u00a0<\/strong>1968 &amp; 1971<\/p>\n\n<\/div><h2 class=\"tabtitle\">Stadium<\/h2>\n<div class=\"tabcontent\">\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/funwhileitlasted.net\/tag\/john-odonnell-stadium\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">John O&#8217;Donnell Stadium<\/a> (8,500)<\/p>\n\n<\/div><h2 class=\"tabtitle\">Ownership &amp; Affiliation<\/h2>\n<div class=\"tabcontent\">\n\n<p><strong>Owner:\u00a0<\/strong>Quad-City Baseball Fans Association<\/p>\n<p><strong>Major League Affiliation:\u00a0<\/strong>California Angels<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Background<\/h3>\n<p>The original Quad City Angels were a long-time Class A farm club of the California Angels based in Davenport, Iowa.\u00a0 This first version of the Q-C Angels played 17 seasons from 1962 until 1978.<\/p>\n<p>Key players to\u00a0spend time in\u00a0Quad City during the first Angels era included:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pitcher <strong>Dave LaRoche<\/strong> (Quad City &#8217;67-&#8217;68)<\/li>\n<li>Pitcher <strong>Frank Tanana<\/strong> (Quad City &#8217;72)<\/li>\n<li>Infielder <strong>Jerry Remy<\/strong> (Quad City &#8217;73)<\/li>\n<li>First Baseman <strong>Willie Aikens<\/strong> (Quad City &#8217;75)<\/li>\n<li>Infielder <strong>Carney Lansford<\/strong> (Quad City &#8217;76)<\/li>\n<li>Shortstop <strong>Dickie Thon<\/strong> (Quad City &#8217;76)<\/li>\n<li>Second Baseman <strong>Alan Wiggins<\/strong> (Quad City &#8217;78).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Future Tampa Bay Rays manager <strong>Joe Maddon<\/strong> played for the club as a 22-year old in 1976.<\/p>\n<p>The Angels won <a href=\"https:\/\/funwhileitlasted.net\/category\/midwest-league\/\">Midwest League <\/a>titles in 1968 and 1971.<\/p>\n<h3>Angels to Cubs &amp; Back Again<\/h3>\n<p>In 1979, the ball club shifted <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Major_League_Baseball\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Major League<\/a> affiliations to the Chicago Cubs. The team was known as the Quad City Cubs from 1979 through 1984.\u00a0\u00a0California then returned for a second tour as parent club from 1985 to 1991. The Quad City Angels identity returned for those seasons.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/funwhileitlasted.net\/2023\/12\/17\/quad-city-angels-1985-1991\/\">That second Quad City Angels team is covered in a separate <em>FWIL<\/em> entry<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>In Memoriam<\/h3>\n<p>Alan Wiggins (Quad City &#8217;78) died of AIDS on January 6, 1991.\u00a0 Wiggins was the first Major League player reported to have died of the disease.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Links<\/h3>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"oLuaxHLK6F\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/funwhileitlasted.net\/midwest-league-media-guides\/\">Midwest League Media Guides<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Midwest League Media Guides&#8221; &#8212; Fun While It Lasted\" src=\"https:\/\/funwhileitlasted.net\/midwest-league-media-guides\/embed\/#?secret=AJZB974ij7#?secret=oLuaxHLK6F\" data-secret=\"oLuaxHLK6F\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"zwmrAAhUNW\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/funwhileitlasted.net\/midwest-league-programs\/\">Midwest League Programs<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Midwest League Programs&#8221; &#8212; Fun While It Lasted\" src=\"https:\/\/funwhileitlasted.net\/midwest-league-programs\/embed\/#?secret=UIPqIT5Rg0#?secret=zwmrAAhUNW\" data-secret=\"zwmrAAhUNW\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>###<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The original Quad City Angels were a long-time Class A farm club of the California Angels based in Davenport, Iowa.\u00a0 This first version of the Q-C Angels played 17 seasons from 1962 until 1978. After a six-season intermission as the Quad City Cubs from 1979 to 1984, the Angels came back for a return engagement in the Quad Cities from 1985 through 1991. The second Q-C Angels club will be covered in a separate entry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":83626,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4557],"tags":[3862,3864,3863],"sport":[],"class_list":["post-22920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-midwest-league","tag-john-odonnell-stadium","tag-modern-woodmen-park","tag-municipal-stadium-davenport"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/funwhileitlasted.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/1976-Quad-City-Angels-Program.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/funwhileitlasted.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/funwhileitlasted.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/funwhileitlasted.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funwhileitlasted.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funwhileitlasted.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22920"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/funwhileitlasted.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106740,"href":"https:\/\/funwhileitlasted.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22920\/revisions\/106740"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funwhileitlasted.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/funwhileitlasted.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funwhileitlasted.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funwhileitlasted.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22920"},{"taxonomy":"sport","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funwhileitlasted.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sport?post=22920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}