Out of Left Field: How the Mariners Made Baseball Fly in Seattle

by Art Thiel

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This colorful book chronicles the Seattle Mariners' rise from basement to penthouse in major league baseball and Seattle's transition from funky burg to a major city of baseball fanatics. It's all here--the lawsuits, the crazy confluence of sports and ego and civic destiny, and of course, superstars Ichiro, A-Rod, Randy Johnson, and Ken Griffey. Seattle sportswriter Art Thiel recounts the painful birth, awkward adolescence, and hard-won maturity of one of the most beloved teams in sports history.… (more)

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susanna.fraser | Apr 7, 2006 |

Seattle Post-Intelligencer columnist, Art Thiel wrote the prescient look at the rise of the Mariners from the ashes after the 1995 season. He chronicles the changes that took the M's from being a team of talented all-stars with little pitching to opening Safeco Field and fielding the 2001 record breaking team. Finally, he also foretells the sorry state the team finds itself in today. I didn't believe it then, but I certainly give Thiel credit now. For all real Mariners fans. (

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This colorful book chronicles the Seattle Mariners' rise from basement to penthouse in major league baseball and Seattle's transition from funky burg to a major city of baseball fanatics. It's all here--the lawsuits, the crazy confluence of sports and ego and civic destiny, and of course, superstars Ichiro, A-Rod, Randy Johnson, and Ken Griffey. Seattle sportswriter Art Thiel recounts the painful birth, awkward adolescence, and hard-won maturity of one of the most beloved teams in sports history.

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