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Rain Check: Baseball in the Pacific Northwest » (1ST)
Authors: Mark Armour
ISBN-13: 9781933599021, ISBN-10: 1933599022
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Society for American Baseball Research
Date Published: July 2006
Edition: 1ST
Author Biography: Mark Armour
Book Synopsis
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.
Table of Contents
| A tale of four cities : origins of region's pro baseball, magnate John Barnes | 4 | |
| In bitter 1903 'war,' coast was clear : the PCL invades the Northwest | 12 | |
| 'He was a nobleman among his fellows' : magnate Dan Dugdale | 16 | |
| The man who won big for Portland : player/manager Walter McCredie | 22 | |
| 'I was never accused of lack of life' : pro baseball in Vancouver, B.C., magnate Bob Brown | 28 | |
| Spitballing to the Hall of Fame : Pitcher Stan Coveleski and contemporaries | 34 | |
| Rocky saga of vagabond 'tribesman' : Jimmy Claxton, first African American in the PCL | 44 | |
| Dodgers no match for high-flying Gulls : barnstorming Brooklyn vs. Everett | 46 | |
| 'The thought of losing was just abhorrent' : pitcher/manager Fred Hutchinson | 48 | |
| A man named Sick made Seattle well : the Seattle Rainiers, magnate Emil Sick | 56 | |
| Back, back, back to the ballparks : photos, team and league chronology for each field | 63 | |
| You want stars, titles, nicknames? : pro baseball in Tacoma | 76 | |
| The Tacoma giant : pitcher Juan Marichal | 82 | |
| Stars leapt to bigs through Spokane : pro baseball in Spokane | 84 | |
| Crash reverberates 60 years later : the deadly Spokane Indians bus accident | 92 | |
| Beavers sole link to PCL's earliest days : pro baseball in Portland | 95 | |
| 'The most wonderful days I ever had' : the vivid memories of eight PCL players | 99 | |
| The revolution started here : the story behind Ball Four | 108 | |
| Buses, beer and emboldened batboys : the Portland Mavericks | 114 | |
| An exhilarating big league bust : the 1969 Seattle Pilots | 116 | |
| Working the free market : the 2001 Seattle Mariners | 123 | |
| Santo to Pesky to Sandberg to Olerud : region's all-time team | 127 |
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