1969 Seattle Pilots
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 pre...
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 pre...
