The 1976 Mariners and the Building of a Team

The 1976 Mariners and the Building of a Team - Lookout Landing

The Mariners signed their first minor league player on December 14th, 1976. 20 year old Vincent White had been released by the Baltimore organization.

Seattle Mariners History - Lookout Landing

How MLB's 14-team playoff proposal would have changed Seattle Mariners history ... The 1976 Mariners and the Building of a Team. With the Winter Meetings coming ...

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On April 6, 1977, the new Seattle Mariners played their first game. The opposing team was the California Angels, and the Kingdome was the venue.

Franchise Timeline - 1970s | Seattle Mariners - MLB.com

On April 6, Major League Baseball returned to Seattle when the Mariners played the California Angels before a sold out Kingdome crowd of 57,762.

Seattle Mariners History - Amanda Lane Cumming

The popular conception of that season is that the Mariners weren't built for the postseason, or worse yet, choked when it mattered. But the story of that team ...

FOUR DECADES OF SEATTLE MARINERS BASEBALL

The Mariners had planned on trying to build a winner with young players, but that plan was altered when team President and GM Dan O'Brien. (who had replaced ...

The Rime of the Seattle Mariners - OOTP Developments Forums

April 6, 1976: Fans of major league baseball in Seattle can now rejoice, because the league has officially announced that an expansion team will ...

Solving the near 50-year-old disappearance of the man who named ...

In 1976, a man won a contest to name the Seattle Mariners and then disappeared without a trace. Nearly 50 years later, he remains one of the biggest unsolved ...

History of the Seattle Mariners - Wikipedia

The Seattle Mariners are an American professional baseball team based in Seattle, Washington. Enfranchised in 1977, the Mariners are a member of the Western ...

Seattle Mariners team ownership history

The key day to building a team was November 5, 1976, when the Mariners and the Toronto Blue Jays, the two teams set to begin play in 1977, had their expansion ...

Seattle Mariners History: Mariners Make First Trade - Call To The Pen

That luxury was not given to the Seattle Mariners, however. An expansion team set to begin play in the 1977 season, the Mariners had built a ...

How M's stadium heard 'play ball' for first time - The Senior Scene

But when the building opened, it was a showcase for the city and a moneymaker for the Mariners. Team owners had complained about the Kingdome ...

Seattle Mariners - Wikipedia

They are nicknamed the M's, a title featured in their primary logo from 1987 to 1992. They adopted their current team colors – navy blue, northwest green (teal) ...

Toronto Blue Jays 40-year throwback: The 1976 MLB Expansion Draft

The Toronto Blue Jays formed their first roster 40 years ago in an expansion draft with the Seattle Mariners on November 5th, 1976.

Seattle Mariners (Baseball team) | Seattle Municipal Archives ...

Records include correspondence, memoranda, reports, studies, and briefing materials to and from City agencies regarding the full range of municipal government ...

Owners | Seattle Mariners - MLB.com

The Board of Directors includes John Ellis (chairman), Minoru Arakawa, Chris Larson, Howard Lincoln, John McCaw, Frank Shrontz and Craig Watjen.

Seattle Mariners | History & Notable Players - Britannica

The team is the only current major-league organization to have never played in the World Series. Seattle had previously been home to a Major League Baseball ...

Seattle Mariners - History - RetroSeasons.com

The name "Mariners" was chosen by club officials in August 1976 from ... The Mariners became the first team in Major League Baseball to be involved ...

The History of the Seattle Mariners, a Dorktown special - YouTube

We mean it. “Arson will get you a baseball team” is not the lesson here. In fact ... The Seattle Mariners build a death star | Dorktown. Secret ...

New Seattle Club Named Mariners - The New York Times

The team begins play next season. The winner, Roger Szmodis of suburban Bellevue, will receive two season tickets and an all‐expenses‐paid trip ...