Sick's Stadium
Sick's Stadium, also known as Sick's Seattle Stadium and later as Sicks' Stadium, was a baseball park in the northwest United States in Seattle, Washington. It was located in Rainier Valley, on the NE corner of S. McClellan Street and Rainier Avenue S (currently the site of a Lowe's hardware store). The longtime home of the Seattle Rainiers of the Pacific Coast League (PCL), it hosted the expansion Seattle Pilots during their only major league season in 1969.
Aerial view in 1967, looking west | |
Seattle Location in the United States Seattle Location in Washington | |
| Address | 2700 Rainier Avenue South |
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| Location | Rainier Valley Seattle, Washington, U.S. |
| Coordinates | 47.58°N 122.298°W |
| Owner | Emil Sick (1938–1964) Sick family (1964–1965) City of Seattle (1965–1979) |
| Capacity | 11,000 (1938) 18,000 (April 1969) 25,420 (June 1969) |
| Field size | 1938 Left field – 325 ft (99 m) Center field – 400 ft (122 m) Right field – 325 ft (99 m) 1969 Left field – 305 ft (93 m) Center field – 402 ft (123 m) Right field – 325 ft (99 m) |
| Surface | Natural grass |
| Construction | |
| Opened | June 15, 1938 |
| Closed | 1976 |
| Demolished | February 1979 |
| Construction cost | $350,000 ($7.28 million in 2022) |
| Tenants | |
| Seattle Rainiers/Angels (PCL) (1938–1968) Seattle Steelheads (Negro leagues) (1946) Seattle Pilots (MLB) (1969) Seattle Rainiers (NWL) (1972–1976) Washington Huskies (NCAA Pac-8) (1973) | |
The site was previously the location of Dugdale Field, a 1913 ballpark that was the home of the Rainiers' forerunners, the Seattle Indians. That park burned down in an Independence Day arson fire in 1932, caused by serial arsonist Robert Driscoll. Authorities would later claim that Driscoll was one of the most dangerous arsonists in the United States during the Great Depression. Until a new stadium could be built on the Dugdale site, the team played at Civic Field, a converted football stadium at the current location of Seattle Center's Memorial Stadium.