The Portland Roses, known also as the Portland Rosebuds, were a Negro league baseball team located in Portland, Oregon for one season (1946). The team was the first all-African American professional baseball team in the state of Oregon. The Roses were members of the West Coast Baseball League, a Negro league which featured franchises in San Francisco, Oakland, Los Angeles, San Diego and Seattle. Jesse Owens, the four-time Olympic gold medal winner, was the owner of the Roses.