The 1996 Seattle Mariners: Part 4
The Mariners limp into June and find more injuries. Amidst All-Star voting and trade rumors, the team fights to stay the course.
Amanda Lane Cumming
1996 Seattle Mariners Interstitial: Baseball Cards Photographed by Randy Johnson
Photography was always a hobby of Randy Johnson’s. He used his time nursing a back injury in 1996 to photograph a set of incredible baseball cards
The 1996 Seattle Mariners, Part 3
In May, the walls start shaking, the earth was quaking, the Mariners were aching, and the duality of the pitching and offense was at its mid-90s Mariners best.
The 1996 Seattle Mariners, Part 2
The Mariners begin the season with a month of home run records, influenza, pitching changes, broken hotel windows, and the best April in franchise history.
The 1996 Seattle Mariners: Navigating a New Identity, Part 1
The magic of 1995 had come to an end. This is the story of what happened next, from the curtain call to Opening Day 1996.
Seattle, We Have a Base Ball Team! The Seattle Alkis and the Arrival of Competitive Base Ball in 1877
100 years before the Mariners played their first season, the Alkis gave Seattle fans their first taste of the base ball epidemic.
The Impossible is Possible Tonight, Tonight
I hope you'll forgive a little navel gazing, cringe, and a splash of nostalgia. Because tonight, win or lose, I'm gonna party like it's October 1995