“Pitchers of Beer: The Story of the Seattle Rainiers” by Dan Raley
March 25, 2011 by Arne Christensen · 2 Comments
WELL-DONE HISTORY OF BYGONE SEATTLE BASEBALL ERA As someone who used to literally sit at my grandfather’s knee listening to his stories of the old Seattle Rainiers and the Pacific Coast League, I became quite familiar with names of people who built baseball in Seattle in the years from 1938 onward. Grandpa was the head […]
Ayala’s Return Gives Sparky Lyle’s Team Big Boost
If anyone heard what sounded like a collective sigh of relief recently, it probably came from the Somerset Patriots clubhouse because pesky Elliott Ayala had shaken off the effects of being hit squarely on the mouth with a pitch sufficiently to get back in the lineup. “That’s a guy that we need,†Manager Sparky Lyle […]
Babe, Joe and Marilyn Monroe
September 7, 2010 by Matt Dahlgren · 2 Comments
There was something about his swing that caught Babe’s eye long before the country had a chance to admire it – long before songs would be written about him. It was 1933 and Babe Dahlgren was in his second full season as the first baseman for the San Francisco Mission Reds of the Pacific Coast […]
PCL Opening Day: 1953
March 12, 2010 by Brendan Macgranachan · 4 Comments
It was the opening of the baseball season in America. As major league teams wrapped up their respective spring trainings and prepared to throw their opening pitch of the 1953 season in a few weeks time, the Pacific Coast League was ready to start now. Warm west coast weather allowed the PCL season to start […]
