Yakima Bears

Yakima Bears 1990–2012 Yakima, Washington
Team logo Cap insignia
Class-level
Previous	Class A-Short Season (1990–2012)
Minor league affiliations
Division	Eastern Division
Previous leagues	Northwest League (1990–2012)
Major league affiliations
Previous	Arizona Diamondbacks (2001–2012) Los Angeles Dodgers (1990–2000)
Minor league titles
League titles	1996, 2000
Division titles	1991, 1994, 1996, 2000
Team data
Previous names	Yakima Bears (1990–2012)
Previous parks	Yakima County Stadium (1993–2012) Parker Field (1990–1992)

The Yakima Bears were a minor league baseball team in the northwest United States, located in Yakima, Washington. They were in the short-season Class A Northwest League and had been a farm team of the Arizona Diamondbacks from 2001 until moving to Hillsboro, Oregon after the 2012 season and becoming the Hillsboro Hops. The Bears were previously affiliated with the Los Angeles Dodgers from the team's creation in 1990 when the Salem Dodgers were moved to Yakima. The Bears played their home games at Yakima County Stadium, which opened in 1993 and succeeded Parker Field.

The history of baseball in Yakima stretches back 97 years ago to 1920 with the short-lived Yakima Indians in the Class B Pacific Coast International League. The Indians lasted only two seasons, closing in 1921 as the league became the Western International League in 1922.

Yakima entered the WIL in 1937 as the Yakima Pippins, reflecting the local area's apple-growing heritage, lasting until the 1941 season due to World War II. In 1946, as the WIL resumed play, Yakima again fielded a team, this time named the Yakima Stars, with their own team airplane. Renaming themselves the Yakima Packers for the 1948 season, the team finally settled on the Yakima Bears in 1949, lasting through the reformation of the WIL into the Northwest League, as the Bears became a charter member of the seven-team Class B NWL in the 1955 season. The team played at Parker Field, constructed in 1937 for the Pippins.