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Previous Logo until 2024. The Mustangs joined the Class C Pioneer League in 1948, then a full-season league. The club was founded by Brown Derby founder Bob Cobb, a Billings native who enlisted Hollywood stars such as Bing Crosby, Cecil B. DeMille, Robert Taylor, and Barbara Stanwyck to purchase stock at $500 to $1,000 apiece to help launch the club.
It carried a country format. The studios and transmitter were located at 4900 Riverside Drive in Billings. The station was licensed for 1,000 watts. KOYN had an FM sister station sign on in 1969, which eventually became KURL. KBLG was sold to R&R Broadcasting in 1977. [2] In the 1980s, the station carried an oldies format. [3]
The longest affiliation in franchise history was with the Billings Mustangs, who were the team's Rookie affiliate in the Pioneer League for 47 seasons from 1974 to 2020. Their newest affiliate is the Chattanooga Lookouts of the Southern League , which became the Reds' Double-A club in 2019; they were previously affiliated with Chattanooga from ...
By 1959, the Pioneer League was down to six teams; Billings and Great Falls along with the Boise Braves, Idaho Falls Russets, Missoula Timberjacks, and Pocatello Athletics. The league operated at the Class A level for one year (1963), before changing to Rookie league in 1964, when there were only four teams in the league; the Idaho Falls Angels ...
As of its 2025 season, the minimum salary for a player will be CA$50,000, with each team allowed one "marquee player" whose salary of which only CA$75,000 counts towards a team's total salary cap of CA$1.5 million.
Jul. 22—BILLINGS — Gabe Wurtz homered and drove in four runs Friday, leading the Billings Mustangs to a 7-1 Pioneer League win over the Glacier Range Riders at Dehler Park. Wurtz hit a solo ...
The Pioneer League is an independent baseball league in the United States.From 1939 to 2020, it was part of affiliated Minor League Baseball.A league champion is determined at the end of each season.
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