Sick's Stadium
Aerial view in 1967, looking west
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| Location | 2700 Rainier Avenue South, Seattle, Washington 98144 |
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| Coordinates | 47°34′46″N 122°17′52″W / 47.57944°N 122.29778°WCoordinates: 47°34′46″N 122°17′52″W / 47.57944°N 122.29778°W |
| Owner |
Emil Sick (1938–1964) Sick family (1964–1965) City of Seattle (1965–1979) |
| Capacity | 11,000 (1938) 18,000 (April, 1969) 25,420 (June, 1969) |
| Field size |
1938 Left field – 325 ft Center field – 400 ft Right field – 325 ft 1969 Left field – 305 ft Center field – 402 ft Right field – 325 ft |
| Surface | Grass |
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| Opened | June 15, 1938 |
| Closed | 1976 |
| Demolished | February, 1979 |
| Construction cost | US$350,000 ($5.95 million in 2017 dollars) |
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Seattle Rainiers (later Seattle Angels) (PCL) (1938–1968) Seattle Steelheads (Negro Leagues) (1946) Seattle Pilots (MLB) (1969) Seattle Rainiers (NWL) (1972–1976) Washington Huskies baseball (NCAA DI Pac-8) (1973) |
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Sick's Stadium, also known as Sick's Seattle Stadium and later as Sicks' Stadium, was a baseball stadium in Seattle, Washington, located in Rainier Valley, at the corner of S. McClellan Street and Rainier Avenue S. It was the longtime home of the Seattle Rainiers of the Pacific Coast League, and was the home of the Seattle Pilots during their only major league season in 1969.
The site was previously the location of Dugdale Field, a 1913 ballpark that was the home of the Rainiers' forerunners, the Seattle Indians. That park burned down in an Independence Day arson fire in 1932, and until a new stadium could be built on the Dugdale site, the team played at Civic Field, a converted football stadium at the current location of Seattle Center's Memorial Stadium.
Sick's Stadium first opened on June 15, 1938 as the home field of the Pacific Coast League's Seattle Rainiers (the renamed Seattle Indians). It was named after Emil Sick, owner of the team and of the Rainier Brewing Company. The Rainiers played at the stadium through 1964, after which they were renamed the Seattle Angels, but continued to play at Sick's through 1968. In 1946, the stadium was briefly the home of the Seattle Steelheads of the short-lived West Coast Baseball Association Negro League, who played at the stadium while the Rainiers were on the road.
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