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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.
Sick's Stadium, also known as Sick's Seattle Stadium and later as Sicks' Stadium, was a baseball park in the northwest United States in Seattle, Washington. It was located in Rainier Valley , on the NE corner of S. McClellan Street and Rainier Avenue S (currently the site of a Lowe's hardware store).
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.
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In 1991 the City of Homestead built the Sports Complex at a price tag of $22 million in order to provide a spring training facility for the Cleveland Indians.The stadium was widely recognized as being state-of-the-art for the time period, as it included multiple practice facilities as well as dormitories for players.
The Indians played all home games at League Park for the 1934 and 1935 seasons, and played one home game at Cleveland Stadium in 1936 as part of the Great Lakes Exposition. In 1937, the Indians began splitting their schedule between the two parks, playing Sunday and holiday games at the stadium during the summer and the remainder at League Park ...
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]