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Skeleton wearing a Seattle Pilots baseball cap propped up on the pitcher's mound at Sick's Stadium, Seattle, Washington, March 24, 1970
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| Title | Skeleton wearing a Seattle Pilots baseball cap propped up on the pitcher's mound at Sick's Stadium, Seattle, Washington, March 24, 1970 |
| Photographer | Wallen, Don
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| Date | 1970 |
| Historical Background | In April 1969, Seattle baseball fans got their first Major League baseball team, on the promise of a new stadium being built. By the end of the season, rumblings could be heard that the team would move. The owners, vocal about the stadium woes, heaped blame on the city, without mentioning their own financial instability. A local ownership bid fell through, and Bud Selig from Milwaukee offered to buy the team. On Mar. 17, 1970 the American League voted to move the team to Milwaukee. In late March injunctions against selling the Pilots were considered in a morning hearing at Superior Court, while the afternoons were devoted to Federal Bankruptcy Court. Federal Bankruptcy Referee Sidney Volinn heard no testimony that countered the owners' claims of financial losses, and on Mar. 25th he lifted all legal restraints preventing the Pilots from moving. On April 1, 1970, the Pilots were ordered to Milwaukee, renamed the Brewers, and a week later played their first home game in Wisconsin. |
| Notes | Wallen 273a |
| Subjects (LCSH) | Human skeleton--Models
Baseball caps
Sick's Stadium (Seattle, Wash.)
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| Location Depicted | United States--Washington (State)--Seattle |
| Digital Collection | Modern Photographers Collection
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| Order Number | MPH1170 |
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| Repository | University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division |
| Repository Collection | Don Wallen Collection |
| Object Type | Photograph |
| Physical Description | Silver gelatin; b&w |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from a photographic print using a Microtek Scanmaker 1000XL at 120 dpi in JPEG format at compression rate 3 and resized to 768x600 ppi. 2010 |
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