On a muggy summer Wednesday night, the Portland Pickles baseball club staff exploded a giant handmade cardboard whale carcass at their home field at Lents Park in Southeast Portland to remember an ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — The Portland Pickles commemorated one of Oregon’s most memorable moments back in 1970 when a whale washed up on the Oregon coast. They blew up a whale -- a fake one, at least -- on ...