From 107 rivalry games between Washington and Washington State, a series that dates to 1900,15 players went on to become pro or college football hall of famers.
Author: David Eskenazi
David Eskenazi
Many of the historic images on Sports Press Northwest are provided by resident Northwest sports history aficionado, David Eskenazi. A Seattle native, David has amassed an extensive archive of Seattle, Northwest, and West Coast historic sports photographs, artifacts and ephemera. We draw from this archive to illustrate stories in The Vault, and our weekly Rotation feature, The Wayback Machine. Youll see many unique and evocative representations of our sporting past, many of which have never been seen publicly. You are in for a treat! David enjoys sharing his collection and zeal for Northwest sports history. His historical showcase activities have included displays at numerous museums, historical societies, and community events, including an annual Northwest baseball history display at Mariners FanFest, and working on baseball-themed fund raising events for the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. Since the early 1990s, The Seattle Mariners have enlisted David to help recognize and illustrate Seattle and the Northwests 120-year baseball legacy. This collaboration has produced historical displays at Safeco Field, including seven 35-foot long historical storyboards surrounding the Safeco Field main concourse, Fred Hutchinson seat end stanchions, and classic early photographs on the suite level, all created for the opening of Safeco Field in 1999. From its opening in 2007 to the present day, David has provided thematic ideas, design elements, images, and scores of original historic Northwest baseball artifacts for the Baseball Museum of the Pacific Northwest at Safeco Field. David also contributed visual materials, historical consultation and on-screen interviews for documentaries on The Seattle Rainiers, The Spokane Indians, and the Seattle Pilots, and provided images and other inputs for a multitude of books, magazines, web-sites and other media focusing on Seattle, Northwest and West Coast sports history. Recent books he contributed to extensively include SABRs Rain Check: Baseball in the Pacific Northwest, and Dan Raleys Pitchers of Beer: The Seattle Rainiers Story. David has a keen ongoing interest in sharing stories, expanding and enhancing his collection, and broadening his knowledge and archive of Northwest sports history and memorabilia. If you have questions, memories to share, stories to suggest, or would like to talk to him about selling or trading Seattle and Northwest sports artifacts, please contact him at (206) 441-1900, or at seattlesportshistory@gmail.com
The 1959-60 Washington Huskies outscored 22 opponents by a combined 525 points to 180 and won back-to-back Rose Bowls, defeating Wisconsin 44-8 and Minnesota 17-7.
The Seattle Rangers of the Continental League succeeded the Seattle Ramblers and provided the city with pro football prior to the arrival of the Seahawks in 1976.
Author Jeff Obermeyer has written an informative and entertaining new book chronicling the rise and fall of the Seattle Totems, who played from 1958-75.
Master shell builder George Yeoman Pocock will enter the State of Washington Sports Hall of Fame Tuesday at Safeco Field, some 55 years after he should have been enshrined.
Forty-seven years after establishing an NCAA record that still stands, Washington’s Al Worley is a nominee for the College Football Foundation Hall of Fame.
This week’s U.S. Open at Chambers Bay will mark the 10th major championship, pro and amateur, conducted in Washington state by the USGA or PGA.
The Mariners and Red Sox will celebrate black baseball history Saturday in a a “Turn Back The Clock” garbed as the Seattle Steelheads and Boston Royal Giants.
Tacoma’s Herman Brix starred in football and track at the University of Washington before becoming a fixture in Hollywood films from the mid-1930s through the 1960s.
Nearly 50 years ago, the Seattle University Chieftains, led by Tom Workman, handed eventual national champion Texas Western its only loss in the Miners’ 28-1 season.