Avista Stadium

ID: 4654 ~ Source: Courtesy of the Northwest Museum of Art and Culture Archives ~ Creator: Charles Libbey Collection ~ Date: 1987

This file appears in: Spokane's Other Indians, A Baseball Story

An interior view of Avista Stadium from center field.

This file appears in: Spokane's Other Indians, A Baseball Story

Spokane's Other Indians, A Baseball Story

By Larkin Marie Mullin

Spokane's baseball club first went by the moniker "Indians" in 1903, following a Spokesman-Review contest. The contest winner actually chose to call them the "Spokane Inlanders," but the newspaper inexplicably changed it to…