M a r i n e r s 5 CONTENTS CHAPTERS Piloting a Team 6 The Stars Come Out 15 Junior to the Rescue 21 Change of Course 29 King Felix Reigns 41 AROUND THE HORN One-Year Wonders 12 Like Father Like Son 20 The Double 24 Crashing the Party 31 Baseball Heaven 38 Spectacular Safeco 43 ALL-TIME MARINERS P Randy Johnson 8 C Dan Wilson 13 1B Alvin Davis 14 2B Harold Reynolds 18 3B Edgar Martinez 23 SS Alex Rodriguez 28 LF Jay Buhner 30 CF Ken Griffey Jr 35 RF Ichiro Suzuki 39 M Lou Piniella 40 Index 48
6 M a r i n e r s PILOTING A TEAM n November 13 1851 the schooner Exact carrying a group of explorers led by civil engineer and surveyor Arthur Denny landed at Alki Point on the west coast of North America Alki a Chinook Indian word meaning by and by seemed to be an apt description of the point of land which had been around of course for centuries but was one of the last areas to be built into a large city what became Seattle Washington by white pioneers in the settlement of America’s West Today the Seattle area hosts a thriving population of more than 3 million people and is known as both a hotbed of rock music and as the birthplace of the United States foremost aeronautics company Boeing Seattle has earned many nicknames including the Queen City of the Pacific reflecting early settlers hopefulness the Emerald City because of the lushness of the area’s trees and Rain City due to the frequent rainfall experienced in the region Since 1977 Seattle has also earned a reputation as a baseball town That year a new American League AL team called the Mariners put down roots in the Pacific Northwest O
Downtown Seattle’s signature building is the distinctive 605-foot-tall Space Needle which was built as part of the 1962 World’s Fair
