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.
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Seattle Mariners' first season (1977)
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Ball Four: Twentieth Anniversary Edition by Jim Bouton
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