The Salt Lake City Trappers were a Minor League Baseball team of the

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level Pioneer League from 1985 to 1992. They were located in

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, and played their home games at

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. The Trappers were not affiliated with any

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team. They won the Pioneer League championship four times: in three consecutive seasons from 1985 to 1987 and again in 1991. In 1985, the Rookie

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, an affiliate of the

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, relocated from

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, to Salt Lake City to make room for the

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of the Triple-A

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. The Trappers' ownership group included actor

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, who held a five percent stake in the team with Richard Knopf. The team is best known for winning 29 consecutive games in 1987 to establish an all-time record for all of

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. Memorabilia from the 1987 squad is on display at the

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.Deseret News: "The Streak" 25 years later
/ref> The team relocated to

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, in 1993 as the

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before moving to

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, as the

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in 1994.

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