Sick's Stadium

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Sick's Stadium

Location:	Seattle, WA
Opened:	June 15, 1938
Owner:	Emil Sick
Surface:	Grass
Architect:
Current Capacity:	25,420
Build Cost:	$350,000
Tenants:	Seattle Rainiers (PCL) (1938-1968) Seattle Steelheads (WCBANL) (1946) Seattle Pilots (MLB) (1969) Seattle Rainiers (Class A) (1972-1976)

1 Stadium History
2 Trivia
3 Field Dimensions
4 Wall Height
5 External Links

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Stadium History

Sick's Stadium opened in 1938 on the site of Dugdale Park, which burned down in 1932 following a Fourth of July celebration. The park served primarily as the home of the Seattle Rainiers of the Pacific Coast League (later known as the Seattle Angels). The Seattle Steelheads of the short-lived West Coast Baseball Association Negro League played at Sick's in 1946 while the Rainiers were on the road. Seattle was awarded the expansion Seattle Pilots in 1969 on the condition of Sick's being expanded to 30,000 seats, but the expansion was never completed. The park's clubhouse facilities and plumbing were also inadequate for a major league team. Due largely to bankruptcy from low attendance at Sick's, the Pilots moved to Milwaukee after the 1969 season.

A Class A minor league team called the Seattle Rainiers occupied Sick's Stadium from 1972 to 1976 after the Pilots left Seattle. When the city was awarded the Seattle Mariners in 1977, the team moved into the Kingdome instead of occupying Sick's (the Kingdome had actually been approved by voters as a condition of getting the Pilots). After being left unoccupied for a few years, Sick's Stadium was demolished in 1979.

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Trivia

A Lowe's home improvement store currently sits on the site of the park.
Sick's was the site of an Elvis Presley concert on September 1, 1957 that was attended by a young Jimi Hendrix.

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