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The team's fortunes improved in 1938 when Emil Sick, owner of Seattle's Rainier Brewing Company, bought the Indians from owner Bill Klepper for $100,000 and renamed them the Seattle Rainiers. He began construction of Sick's Stadium, a 15,000-seat facility on the site of old Dugdale Field. [10] Sick invested in the team, and it bore results.
The stadium site is currently marked by a sign (on the corner of Rainier and McClellan) and a replica of home plate (near the store's exit) as well as markings inside the store where the bases were. 60 ft 6 in (18.44 m) from home plate, near the cash registers, is a circle where the mound and pitching rubber were.
Dugdale Field was a baseball stadium in the Rainier Valley of Seattle, Washington, United States. It was the home of Seattle Indians and Seattle Giants and had a capacity of 15,000 people. It opened in 1913 and was destroyed by fire in July 1932. [ 1 ]
Tacoma's first team in the PCL was the Tacoma Tigers, who joined the league in 1904, having moved from Sacramento after the 1903 season. The 1904 Tigers won Tacoma's first PCL pennant, finishing first in both halves of the split season schedule, seven games (annualized) over the runner-up Los Angeles Angels.
In 1940 and from 1942 on, the Indians played the majority of their home schedule at Cleveland Stadium, abandoning League Park entirely after the 1946 season. The final Indians game at League Park was played on Saturday, September 21, a 5–3 loss in 11 innings to the Detroit Tigers in front of 2,772 fans. League Park became the last stadium ...
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The stadium hosted the Colonial Athletic Association baseball tournament from 1995 to 1999 [8] and the Conference USA baseball tournament in 2002. [9] Two devoted fans who met at a Kinston Indians game decided to get married at the ballpark. [10] On September 30, 2006, Grainger Stadium was the site of the Whole Hog Blues Festival. [11]
Cheney Stadium is named for Ben Cheney, a local businessman who worked to bring minor league baseball to Tacoma and also was put in control of the project. Cheney Stadium was constructed in 42 working days after the San Francisco Giants had committed to moving their Triple-A affiliate from Phoenix if the city could open the stadium for the beginning of the 1960 season. [9]