1969 Seattle Pilots
1969 Seattle Pilots: Major League Baseball's One-year Team Kenneth Hogan,
Publisher: McFarland & Company
ISBN: 0786427868
DDC: 796.357640979777
Edition: Paperback; 2006-11-27
Summary:
The Mariners were not Seattle's first major league baseball team. In
1937, Seattle businessman Emil Sick bought the city's failing Pacific
Coast League team, the Indians, renamed them the Rainiers and
constructed a new, state-of-the-art stadium. Over the next few
decades, at least two teams the Kansas City A's and the Cleveland
Indians would consider relocating to Seattle, and both PCL president
Dewey Soriano and Cleveland Indians owner William Daly lobbied to
bring a major league team to the booming city. Their efforts paid off
in 1967, when despite shrinking Rainiers attendance figures, Seattle
was awarded the second of two American League expansion teams. For
one season-1969-Sick's Stadium became the home of the Seattle Pilots.
From the earliest days of the franchise through their final move,
this book tells the story of the first one-year team in the American
or National League since 1901 (when, ironically, the Milwaukee
Brewers left town after the AL's first year of major-league status).
After a concise discussion of Seattle's amateur and minor league
history, the main text provides a detailed account of the efforts to
bring major league baseball to town, the first team draft, the 1969
spring training and regular season, the attempt to save the team, and
finally the move to Milwaukee. Brief interviews with fourteen players
round out the text. Tables including a team roster, final league
standings, wins and losses and player stats are also provided.
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