By David Eskenazi and Steve Rudman

Based on a blurb that appeared in the Feb. 28, 1908 evening edition of The Seattle Times, its baseball reporter, who went unidentified (no bylines in that era), found intriguing the prospect of Dan Dugdale’s Siwashes coming to terms with 26-year-old shortstop Frank Tealey Raymond.

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By David Eskenazi and Steve Rudman

During the years (1989-99) Ken Griffey Jr. patrolled center field in the Kingdome, the Mariners kept a running tally of the almost-absurd number of left fielders who played adjacent to the 10-time All-Star. A couple of dozen ultimately did so, starting with Greg “Pee Wee” Briley (April 3, 1989) and ending with Shane Monahan (Oct. 3, 1999). The Mariners never did find the right solution in left during Griffey’s prime.

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By David Eskenazi and Steve Rudman

“The Next 50” is a six-month celebration, underway at spruced-up Seattle Center, aimed at marking the 50-year anniversary of the 1962 Century 21 Exposition (World’s Fair), an event that began as a promotional stunt to put Seattle on the map, but wound up shaping the future of the city.

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David Eskenazi and Steve Rudman

Roscoe “Torchy” Torrance, a volunteer in the Student Army Training Corps at the University of Washington, received orders near the end of October, 1918, to report to the Artillery School at Fort Still, OK., ASAP, where, following boot camp, he would be deployed to Europe to aid the American cause in World War I.

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By David Eskenazi and Steve Rudman

Not much excites a baseball fan more than the debut of a can’t-miss prospect, especially when the prospect is a young flamethrower on the order of the one the Seattle Rainiers touted excitedly in a news release Aug. 9, 1955.

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By David Eskenazi and Steve Rudman

From the dignified, derby-topped Dan Dugdale at the dawn of the last century to Eric Wedge today, the men who have directed Seattle’s numerous professional baseball enterprises – we count 56 spanning the Siwashes through the Mariners -- represent remarkable managerial diversity.

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By David Eskenazi and Steve Rudman

Had Rogers Hornsby, the incoming manager of the Seattle Rainiers, opted to stay away from Puerto Rico in the winter of 1950, and he very nearly did, a significant chapter in Pacific Coast League history never would have unfolded, and a local championship, the last under the Rainiers banner, probably would not have occurred.

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By David Eskenazi and Steve Rudman

Lorenzo Romar is a three-time Pac-10/12 Conference Coach of the Year, has won 20 or more games six times, and directed the Huskies to six NCAA and one NIT tournament appearances. Romar’s record is unmatched in the modern history of University of Washington basketball, but even Romar will have to go some to warrant a night like the one that his UW mentor, Marv Harshman, enjoyed when the Huskies met Washington State in Hec Edmundson Pavilion Feb. 23, 1985.

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By David Eskenazi and Steve Rudman

Emmett Watson, later to become one of Seattle’s most popular and prolific daily newspaper columnists, as well as one of its most eccentric celebrities (CEO of Lesser Seattle Inc., whose motto was "KBO," or "Keep The Bastards Out"), spent the afternoon of May 16, 1948 at Sicks’ Stadium covering that day’s baseball entertainment between the Seattle Rainiers and Sacramento Solons. Watson filed this report for the consumption of Seattle Times readers:

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By David Eskenazi and Steve Rudman

If all the flattering words used to describe Emil Sick in the aftermath of his Nov. 10, 1964, death could be bumped together in a single volume, the work would probably be fatter than a James Michener novel. “If you couldn’t work for Emil, you couldn’t work for anybody,” Edo Vanni said after Sick’s graveside service. “I would have worked for him for nothing.”

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