The Mariners were not Seattle's first major league baseball team. In 1937, Seattle businessman Emil Sick bought the city's failing Pacific Coast League team, the Indians, renamed them the Rainiers and constructed a new, state-of-the-art stadium. Over the next few decades, at least two teams--the Kansas City A's and the Cleveland Indians--would consider relocating to Seattle, and both PCL president Dewey Soriano and Cleveland Indians owner William Daly lobbied to bring a major league team to the booming city. Their efforts paid off in 1967, when despite shrinking Rainiers attendance figures,...

There have been well over 100 books written on the New York Yankees. However, this one takes a popular subject and looks at it from a very different angle. Batting 10th for the Yankees; Recollections of 30 Yankees You May Not Rememeber contains in depth interviews with former ballplayers who had brief careers or were bench players. These largely unknown men shared the unique privilage of having worn the pinstripes and played at Yankee Stadium. Stories and books aplenty have been written about Mantle, Berra, Ruth, Gehrig, Ford, Jeter, Munson and Torre. Now, in their own words, here the Yankee...