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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Remember the Seattle Pilots? - Newsday
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Revisiting 1969 Expansion: Sicks' Stadium
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No Longer Sleepless In Seattle, Young Mariners On Mission To Win First Pennant In Team History
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Jim Bouton, Seattle Pilot. Created for the 2023 All-Star Game…, by John Thorn
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The Fleer Sticker Project: Seattle Pilots Official Theme Song
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Seattle Pilots jerseys among the most coveted of the one-year franchise - Sports Collectors Digest
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The 1969 Seattle Pilots: Major League Baseball's One-Year Team: Hogan, Kenneth: 9780786427864: : Books
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The Flight of the Seattle Pilots – Society for American Baseball Research
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How, in one zany, quirky season, the Seattle Pilots became so much more than a footnote in history