Millionaire brewer Emil Sick (1894-1964) bought the Seattle Indians baseball team in 1937, renamed the team the "Rainiers'' after his beer, and the following year opened a new ballpark in Rainier Valley, Sick's Seattle Stadium. For years, fans crowded the stadium or watched from the slopes overlooking the outfield, but increasing television coverage of Major League baseball caused attendance at Minor League games to drop. Mr. Sick sold the Rainiers in 1961, and the stadium hosted events, such as rock concerts by Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin, until the Seattle Pilots, a new major league team, took to the field in 1969. The Pilots were sold the following year to Milwaukee, and after the Kingdome was completed in 1977, Sick's Stadium was torn down.
This photo, taken around 1938, shows the outside of Sick's Seattle Stadium in Rainier Valley.
Caption information source: "Sicks' Stadium (Seattle)," by Alan J. Stein, HistoryLink.org Essay 1501.
ID Number: 1979.6782.2
Date: Circa 1938
Physical Description: 1 photographic postcard : b&w ; 5.5 x 3.5 in.
Additional Information: Digital copy of this item available thanks to funding from a 2016 Institute for Museum and Library Services grant.
