The Glory Days: How MLB’s First Expansion Unfolded
May 28, 2012 by Thad Mumau · 1 Comment
Major league baseball’s first modern-day expansion did not just happen overnight. It was not simply the result of a shrewd job of blackmailing by William Shea and renowned baseball man Branch Rickey; they did not hold Commissioner Ford Frick and 16 team owners hostage by threatening to start a new league. The shadow of the […]
“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 […]
