Current
Season
Team
History
All-Time Leaders Batting
Pitching
League Championship Titles: 1935
Ballpark: Sick’s Stadium
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Sick’s Stadium Opened: 1938
Capacity: 12,000
South McClellan Street and Rainier Avenue,
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Factors
AVG overall .992
LHB .992, RHB .992
Doubles .954
Triples .983
HR overall .796
LHB .796, RHB .796
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Distances/wall heights
Left Field line 325 ft./8 ft.
Left Field 345 ft./8 ft.
Left-Center Field 405 ft./12.5 ft.
Center Field 400 ft./12.5 ft.
Right-Center Field 402 ft./12.5 ft.
Right Field 345 ft./8 ft.
Right Field line 325 ft./8 ft. |
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In the Redux
The Rainiers have one Pacific Coast League
championship but have yet to win a World Series
title. The Rainiers also made a postseason
appearance in 1927.
Real-life history
From 1901 the Pacific Northwest League had a club
known as the Seattle Clamdiggers, and when that
league merged with the California League to become
the Pacific Coast League in 1903, the Clamdiggers
became the Siwashes; they were also at times
referred to as the Indians. The PCL contracted to
four teams after the 1906 season, and the
Siwashes/Indians were one of the casualties. They
didn’t disband, however; the team competed for the
next 11 years in the Class-B Northwest League.
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The 1924 champs in the days when sleeves
were long, pants were wide, and
superstitious seamstresses refused to sew
the lettering on perpendicular to the
pinstripes. |
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An expansion team originally called the Seattle
Rainiers joined the PCL with Portland in 1919,
bringing the number of teams in the league to
eight. The Rainiers soon reverted back to their
earlier Indians monicker, and won the pennant in
1924 (their first) but returned to the second
division the following season and stayed there for
more than a decade. Adding insult to injury, their
home field, Dugdale Park, was torched by an
arsonist in 1932. For the next five and a half
years they were forced to play on the hard dirt of
Civic Stadium.
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After the game, there’s an exhibition of
postmodernist works in the concourse. |
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They were purchased by Emil Sick in 1938. Sick
pulled the name Rainiers out of mothballs, and
this time it stuck. The name was doubly
appropriate, reflecting both the team’s proximity
to Washington’s Mt. Rainier and their owner’s
other successful enterprise, the Rainier Brewing
Company (the beer connection also provided the
team its informal nickname, the “Suds”). Also in
1938 Sick built 15,000-seat Sick’s Stadium on the
site of their previous home, Dugdale Park. The
Rainiers soared to the top of the standings in
1939, their first of three consecutive first-place
finishes. They lost the league championship that
year, but took the title four years in a row,
1940-1943. They also won pennants in 1951 and
1955.
In 1965 they were purchased by the California
Angels and renamed the Seattle Angels. They won
one more pennant under that name, in 1966. Their
last season was 1968; the franchise was disbanded
when Seattle was awarded an American League
franchise the following season. That team, the
Pilots, lasted only one year in Seattle, but in
1977 the American League was ready to try again,
and the Seattle Mariners have represented the city
ever since.
Seattle Rainiers Uniform History
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1921-1923 Home
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1924-1926 Home
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1927-1929 Home
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1930-1931 Home
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1932-1935 Home
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1921-1923 Away
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1924-1926 Away
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1927-1929 Away
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1930-1931 Away
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1932-1935 Away
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1936-1937 Home
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1938-1940 Home
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1941-1942 Home
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1943-1950 Home
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1936-1937 Away
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1938-1942 Away
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1943-1950 Away
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1951-1952 Home
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1953-1954 Home
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1955 Home
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1956-1957 Home
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1958 Home
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1951-1954 Away
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1955 Away
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1956-1957 Away
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1958 Away
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1959-1960 Home
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1961-1964 Home
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1959-1960 Away
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1961-1964 Away
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