The Seattle Rainiers, also known as the Seattle Indians and Seattle Angels, were a Pacific Coast League baseball team that played in Seattle from 1903 to 1906 and 1919 to 1968. The Indians were bought by Emil Sick in 1938 and re-named the Rainiers as advertising for the Sick family brewery; construction on Sick's Stadium began the following year. The Rainiers won league titles in 1924, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1951, 1955, and 1966.
Photographs of the Seattle Rainiers baseball teams, players and games in Sick Stadium.
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Relocated from: Seattle Subject File in the Repository, 2016.
Processed by Beck Prigot; processing completed in 2016.
News article attached to verso: HUDDLING WITH RAJAH: In Columbus, Ohio – The three men who will guide the Seattle Rainiers next season got together for a talk with Rogers Hornsby, 1951 Rainier manager, during the minor-league baseball meeting last week. From the left were Earl Sheely, business manager; Roscoe (Torchy) Torrance, vice president; Hornsby and Bill Sweeney, who will pilot the Rainiers in 1952.
Written on verso: Mgr Bill Sweeney displays real smile after a winning ball game.
Figure on far right holding glove has been added into original photograph.
Caption on photo: 1940 Pacific Coast League Champions
Written on verso: Back row: Dr. L. W. Richards, Archie, Gyselman, Lawrence, Radunich, Kelleher, Tate, Kearse, Webber, Walker, Campbell, Gregory; Middle row: Barrett, Wilkie, White, Jack Lelivelt – mgr., Coscarart, Niemiec, Turpin, Scribner, Harris; Front row: Stagg, Vannin, Schuster, Eddie Taylor – coach.
Written on verso: 1942 Rainiers. Dr. Lew Richards, trainer; Bill Matheson; Hal Turpin; Jo Jo White; Earl Torgesen; Bill Lawrence; Ed Kearse; Al Libke; Larry Guay; Mike Budnick; Bob Collins; Ed Carnett. Dick Gyselman; Al Niemic; Al Ketchmar; Carl Fischer; Dewey Soriano; Sylvester Johnson; Bill Skiff (mgr.); Eddie Taylor (coach); Ned Stickte; Lynn King; Dick Barrett; Bill Beard; Spencer Harris; Dick Richards (mascot)
Caption on photograph: Pacific Coast League Champions-1939, 1940, 1941. Back row: Dr. Lew Richards, trainer; Bill Matheson; Hal Turpin; Joyner White; Earl Torgeson; Bill Lawrence; Ed Kearse; Al Libke; Larry Guay; Mike Budnick; Bob Collins; Ed Carnett. Front row: Dick Gyselman; Al Niemice; Al Kretchmar; Carl Fischer; Dewey Soriano; Sylvester Johnson; Bill Skiff, manager; Eddie Taylor, coach; Ned Stickle; Lynn King; Dick Barrett; Bill Beard; Spencer Harris; Dick Richards, mascot
People in photograph: Front row: Roy Kicker, Dick Leon; second row: Dr. Lew Richards, Albert Gerheauser, K Chorlton, Jack Warren, Roger "Doc" Cramer, Paul Richards, Oran Davis, Tod Davis, Marvin Rackley, Jim Davis; third row: Dennis Galehouse, Alfred Lyons, Howard Judnich, George Vico, Charles Schanz, James Wilson, Hector "Hal" Brown, William Ramsey, Harold "Jack" Albright, Guy Fletcher; back row: Jacob "Vern" Kindsfather, William Schuster, Frank Colman, Hollis "Bud" Sheely, Ernest Bickhaus, William Salkeld, Anthony York, Linus "Lonny" Frey, Nicholas "Mickey" Witek
People in photograph: front row: Dick Knapp, Gordon Goldsberry, Paul Calvert, Paul Richards, Arthur Del Duca, Alexander Garbowski, Mike Knowles; middle row: Alfred Lyons, Rocco Krsnich, Stephen Nagy, Bennie Huffman, Rogers "Rajah" Hornsby, Manuel "Jim" Rivera, James Davis, Wesley Hamner, Joseph Erautt; back row: Walter Judnich, Jose Montalvo, Harold "Jack" Albright, Charles Schanz, George Vico, Robert Hall, Earl Johnson, Hector "Hal" Brown, Claude Christie, Marvin Grissom