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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.
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.
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 ]
As a result, the Indians began pressing for a new stadium. Progressive Field as viewed from the corner of Carnegie Avenue and Ontario Street in 2022. Plans for a new stadium first began in 1984 when Cuyahoga County voters defeated a property tax for building a 100% publicly funded domed stadium, which would have been shared by the Indians and ...
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On August 24, 2022, Major League Baseball released its 2023 schedule. There were 162 games scheduled for all teams. This season was the first MLB season of a new balanced schedule in which every team played each other at least once, similar to the NBA and NHL. The new balanced schedule included 13 games against their division rivals, totaling ...
Victory Field opened on July 11, 1996, with the Indians falling to the Oklahoma City 89ers, 5–3, in front of 14,667 fans. It replaced Bush Stadium, which had also been called Victory Field for 25 years from 1942 to 1967. [6] The new park seated 13,300 fans (15,696 with lawn seating) when it was opened.