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Focuses on the acquisition and loss, after only one year, of the Seattle Pilots

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Introduction: Going Over the Ground Rules

1. Seattle: City of Restraint

2. The Seattle Spirit and a World's Fair

3. For Want of a Stadium

4. Come, and They Will Build It

Play-by-Play: Spring Training 1969

Time Line of Pilots and Stadium Politics

5. Build It, and They Will Come

Play-by-Play: April and May

6. Setting the Course

7. Not Enough Seats, Not Enough Fans

Play-by-Play: June and July

8. "Storm Clouds Gather over Pilots' Port"

Play-by-Play: August and September

9. The Civic Leaders Strike Out

10. Dropping the Pilots

Play-by-Play: Spring Training 1970

11. A Stadium at Last

12. Out-of-Court Settlement: The Mariners

Epilogue: The Box Score

Appendixes

Abbreviations Used in Notes

Notes

Bibliography

Index

About the Author

Bill Mullins is professor emeritus of history at Oklahoma Baptist University. He lives in Federal Way, Washington.

Reviews

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