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.
19th Century
54-40 or Play Ball!: The International Match Games that Fueled Base Ball’s Grown in 1870s Cascadia
Happy Canada Day! Let’s celebrate with the first prominent base ball club in British Columbia! And learn how early baseball in the Northwest built community at home and across the border.
The Pioneer Base Ball Club and the Beginning of Northwest Baseball in the 1860s
The origins of baseball in the Northwest took root in Oregon in the years immediately following the Civil War with a team whose legacy still echoes today.
Ice, Ice, Baseball: A Delightful History of Baseball Played on Ice
Good news, Rogers Hornsby, you don't have to stare out the window and wait for spring after all!