#seattle pilots

[thepopculturearchivist]

March 24, 1970

[mudwerks]

(via Jim Bouton, Author of Tell-All Baseball Memoir ‘Ball Four,’ Dies at 80 - The New York Times)

Jim Bouton, a pitcher of modest achievement but a celebrated iconoclast who left a lasting mark on baseball as the author of “Ball Four,” a raunchy, shrewd, irreverent — and best-selling — player’s diary that tainted the game’s wholesome image, died on Wednesday at his home in the Berkshires in Massachusetts. He was 80.

[vintagejapanesebaseball]

Ichiro Suzuki in Seattle Pilots retro uniform

[thepopculturearchivist]

March 16, 1970

[thepopculturearchivist]

March 31, 1970

[thepopculturearchivist]

January 20, 1970

[thepopculturearchivist]

February 10, 1970

[baseballbybsmile]

Today In 1969: The Seattle Pilots play the first game of their only season, a 4-3 win over the California Angels!