16 results for: Rainier Baseball Club
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Rainier Baseball Club scorecard, 1906
The Seattle Rainiers were a Minor League Baseball team that played in the Pacific Coast League from 1903 to 1906 and 1919 to 1968. Originally named the Seattle Indians and also known as the Seattle Angels, they changed their name after being acquired by the Rainier Brewing Company, which was in turn named for nearby Mount Rainier. This official score…
ID Number:1970.4835.1
Date:1906
Program
Beacon Hill Merchants Baseball Team program, 1927
The Seattle Community Baseball League was founded in 1926, as a semi-professional league of eight teams. The inaugural teams were the West Seattle Athletic Club, Georgetown Merchants, Fremont Community Club, Alki Merchants, Mercer Athletic Club, Rainier Valley Merchants, and South Park Merchants. Ballard was offered a team, but could not put one together, so Interbay was given the eighth slot.…
ID Number:1984.135.1
Date:1927
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Ken Griffey, Jr. with children at Rainier Vista Boys & Girls Club, Seattle, December 16, 1996
Ken Griffey, Jr. played for the Seattle Mariners from 1989-1999 and again from 2009 until his retirement from professional baseball in 2010. He was one of the Mariners' most successful and popular players. In addition to baseball, Griffey was also involved with his community's young people, and was a big supporter of the Rainier Vista Boys & Girls Club. He…
ID Number:2000.107.19961216.9.09
Date:1996
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Ken Griffey, Jr. with children at Rainier Vista Boys & Girls Club, Seattle, December 16, 1996
Ken Griffey, Jr. played for the Seattle Mariners from 1989-1999 and again from 2009 until his retirement from professional baseball in 2010. He was one of the Mariners' most successful and popular players. In addition to baseball, Griffey was also involved with his community's young people, and was a big supporter of the Rainier Vista Boys & Girls Club. He…
ID Number:2000.107.19961216.9.16
Date:1996
Program
Rainier Baseball Club scorecard, 1947
The Seattle Rainiers were a Minor League Baseball team that played in the Pacific Coast League from 1903 to 1906 and 1919 to 1968. Originally named the Seattle Indians and also known as the Seattle Angels, they changed their name after being acquired by the Rainier Brewing Company, which was in turn named for nearby Mount Rainier. This official score…
ID Number:2012.58.3a
Date:1947
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Claude Norris, Royal Brougham, and Bruce Rowell, Seattle, circa 1946
This photo shows Claude Norris (left), Royal Brougham (center), and Bruce Rowell standing together, with Brougham holding a trophy. The nature of the event is unknown, though it was presumably sports-related, as Brougham was the long-time sports editor for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, and at the time, Norris and Rowell headed the Seattle franchise of the minor-league West Coast Negro Baseball…
ID Number:2014.49.018.044.0096
Date:Circa 1946
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Four Owls Club softball players on car, Seattle circa 1938
The Owls Club was a Black women’s softball team formed the late 1930s in Seattle. The Owls won the first women’s Washington State Softball Championship in 1938, playing at Sick’s Stadium, today the site of Rainier Avenue Lowe’s. The team, renamed the Brown Bombers, won the championship again in 1939. Left-handed Owls' pitcher Lillian Brown struck out twelve batters on…
ID Number:2014.49.19.01.01
Date:Circa 1938
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Owls player jumping in the air, Seattle, circa 1938
The Owls Club was a Black women’s softball team formed the late 1930s in Seattle. The Owls won the first women’s Washington State Softball Championship in 1938, playing at Sick’s Stadium, today the site of Rainier Avenue Lowe’s. The team, renamed the Brown Bombers, won the championship again in 1939. Left-handed pitcher Lillian Brown struck out twelve batters on the…
ID Number:2014.49.19.01.02
Date:Circa 1938
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Evelyn Willliams standing at bat, Seattle, circa 1938
The Owls Club was a Black women’s softball team formed the late 1930s in Seattle. The Owls won the first women’s Washington State Softball Championship in 1938, playing at Sick’s Stadium, today the site of Rainier Avenue Lowe’s. The team, renamed the Brown Bombers, won the championship again in 1939. Left-handed pitcher Lillian Brown struck out twelve batters on the…
ID Number:2014.49.19.01.03
Date:Circa 1938
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Owls Club softball team posing near cars, Seattle, circa 1938
The Owls Club was a Black women’s softball team formed the late 1930s in Seattle. The Owls won the first women’s Washington State Softball Championship in 1938, playing at Sick’s Stadium, today the site of Rainier Avenue Lowe’s. The team, renamed the Brown Bombers, won the championship again in 1939. Left-handed pitcher Lillian Brown struck out twelve batters on the…
ID Number:2014.49.19.01.04
Date:Circa 1938