Research Catalog

Title

Rain check : baseball in the Pacific Northwest / edited by Mark Armour ; photos from the David Eskenazi Collection.

Publication

Cleveland, OH : Society for American Baseball Research ; [Lincoln, Neb.] : Distributed by University of Nebraska Press, c2006.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Armour, Mark L.
• Society for American Baseball Research

Description

128 p. : ill.; 28 cm.

Summary

"This is a collection of more than 170 photos and two dozen essays and which tell the 120-year history of baseball in the Pacific Northwest. The stories range chronologically from the origins of the professional game in the region in the 1890s through the account of the 2001 season of the Seattle Mariners and focus on baseball in Seattle, Portland, Spokane, Tacoma, and Vancouver, British Columbia."--Publisher's website.

Subject

Baseball > Northwest, Pacific > History

Genre/Form

History

Note

• "Published by the Society for American Baseball Research for the SABR National Convention, June 28-July 2, 2006, Seattle."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

A tale of four cities : origins of region's pro baseball, magnate John Barnes / Jim Price -- In bitter 1903 'war,' coast was clear : the PCL invades the Northwest / Rob Neyer -- 'He was a nobleman among his fellows' : magnate Dan Dugdale / Jeff Obermeyer -- The man who won big for Portland : player/manager Walter McCredie / Brian Campf -- 'I was never accused of lack of life' : pro baseball in Vancouver, B.C., magnate Bob Brown / Tom Hawthorn -- Spitballing to the Hall of Fame : Pitcher Stan Coveleski and contemporaries / Steve Steinberg -- Rocky saga of vagabond 'tribesman' : Jimmy Claxton, first African American in the PCL / Tom Hawthorn -- Dodgers no match for high-flying Gulls : barnstorming Brooklyn vs. Everett / Dave Larson -- 'The thought of losing was just abhorrent' : pitcher/manager Fred Hutchinson / Clay Eals -- A man named Sick made Seattle well : the Seattle Rainiers, magnate Emil Sick / Dan Raley -- Back, back, back to the ballparks : photos, team and league chronology for each field / David Eskenazi -- You want stars, titles, nicknames? : pro baseball in Tacoma / Jim Price -- The Tacoma giant : pitcher Juan Marichal / Anthony Salazar -- Stars leapt to bigs through Spokane : pro baseball in Spokane / Jim Price -- Crash reverberates 60 years later : the deadly Spokane Indians bus accident / Jim Price -- Beavers sole link to PCL's earliest days : pro baseball in Portland / Paul Andresen and Kip Carlson -- 'The most wonderful days I ever had' : the vivid memories of eight PCL players / Larry Stone -- The revolution started here : the story behind Ball Four / Mark Armour -- Buses, beer and emboldened batboys : the Portland Mavericks / Jim Bouton -- An exhilarating big league bust : the 1969 Seattle Pilots / Nick Rousso -- Working the free market : the 2001 Seattle Mariners / Dan Levitt -- Santo to Pesky to Sandberg to Olerud : region's all-time team / Edited by Eric Sallee.

ISBN

1933599022

OCLC

• 70340032
• SCSB-10787781

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library