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Peoples, Gertrude Johnson (b. 1932)

Gertrude Johnson Peoples is the founder of the country's first academic-support office for college student athletes. For over 40 years she has been mother, friend, and academic adviser to athletes at ...

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Pilots and Mariners

In this reflection, Bart Wright traces the links between Seattle's first Major League ball team -- the Seattle Pilots -- and the Mariners.

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Pocock, George Yeoman (1891-1976)

George Y. Pocock was internationally famous for designing and handcrafting the best and swiftest racing shells in the world of crew racing. A native of England, he was recruited in 1912 by Coach Hiram...

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Rademacher, Thomas Peter (1928-2020)

Pete Rademacher was a rugged farm kid from the Yakima Valley who became an Olympic champion boxer and then arranged a match that rocked the boxing world. He fought for the heavyweight championship of ...

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Rat City Roller Derby

Rat City Rollergirls is a Seattle-based roller derby league of amateur female skaters, the first of its kind in the Northwest and one of five charter members of the national Women's Flat Track Derby A...

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Robertson, Bob (1929-2020)

Bob Robertson's radio audience on fall Saturdays stretched across Washington and into every demographic: the hunter in Asotin driving home from the duck blind, the gardener in Port Angeles covering he...

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Rodeo in Washington

Contests pitting humans against animals appear in cultures throughout recorded history. In the U.S., that tradition is the rodeo, which emerged from tasks cowboys did while working cattle in the 1800s...

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Rogers Playground (Seattle)

Rogers Playground, located in Seattle's Eastlake neighborhood between Eastlake Avenue and the TOPS at Seward school, was named after Governor John R. Rogers (1897-1901). It began its existence as a pl...

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Seafair -- Beginnings

Seafair, the gala annual Seattle-King County water festival, began in August 1950 and continues to this day. The festival erupts all over King County and has included hydroplane speed competitions, li...

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Seafair: the Founding: Jim Douglas's Account

In this excerpt from his unpublished autobiography, Jim Douglas (1909-2005) recalls the many steps involved in coordinating Seafair. Jim Douglas was one of a group of local citizens called together by...

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Seattle Indians: A Forgotten Chapter in Seattle Baseball

In mid-1920 the Seattle Giants baseball club (previously also known as the Rainiers and the Purple Sox) became the Seattle Indians. After winning a pennant in 1924 the Indians began a slide that carri...

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Seattle Indoor Ski Tournaments, 1939 and 1940: Highlights of Northwest Skiing

In 1939 and 1940, local ski clubs hosted indoor ski tournaments at Seattle's Civic Ice Arena (later Mercer Arena) that were sanctioned by the Pacific Northwestern Ski Association, making them a formal...

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Seattle Mariners

The Seattle Mariners were created grudgingly by Major League Baseball as the result of a lawsuit. They played their first games in 1977, then took 14 years to have a winning season. Their first three ...

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Seattle Mariners' first season (1977)

The Seattle Mariners' first season was better than average for an expansion team, but still a losing effort. They joined Major League Baseball's American League in 1977 thanks to a lawsuit and with a ...

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Seattle Metropolitans (1915-1924)

The Seattle Metropolitans were the city's first professional hockey team and the first American team to win the Stanley Cup, hockey's biggest prize, a feat accomplished in their second season when the...

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Seattle Pilots Baseball Team

In April 1969, Seattle baseball fans got their first Major League baseball team. The Seattle Pilots had moved to town. On April 11, the Pilots shut out the Chicago White Sox, 7-0, in their temporary h...

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Seattle Seahawks

The Seattle Seahawks professional football team was born in 1974. A group of Seattle businessmen led by the Nordstrom family was awarded one of two new franchises added that year by the National Footb...

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Seattle Slew (1974-2002)

Seattle Slew was an ungainly, undervalued colt who grew up to be one of the most successful horses in the long history of Thoroughbred racing and breeding. He was born in Kentucky, where he was bought...

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Seattle Sounders FC

Seattle Sounders FC is a Major League Soccer (MLS) team that began play in 2009. The name, however, dates back to 1974 with the birth of the North American Soccer League's Seattle Sounders. That early...

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Seattle Storm (WNBA)

The Seattle Storm is a Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) team that was formed in 1999 as an expansion franchise and over the next two decades was Seattle’s most successful professio...

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Seattle SuperSonics, Part 1

Seattle's National Basketball Association team for 41 years, the SuperSonics were the city's first major league sports franchise and won a championship in 1979. Longtime Seattle natives remember where...

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Seattle SuperSonics, Part 2

The SuperSonics were Seattle's men's professional basketball team for 41 years, winning the National Basketball Association championship in 1979. The team's 41-year run in Seattle came to a controvers...

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Seattle's Municipal Ski Park at Snoqualmie Summit (1934-1940)

In the winter of 1934, Seattle made national news when its Board of Park Commissioners opened one of the first municipal ski areas in the country at the old Milwaukee Railroad stop of Laconia at Snoqu...

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Seirawan, Yasser (b. 1960)

In 1972 at the age of 12, Yasser Seirawan walked into the Last Exit on Brooklyn, a coffeehouse in Seattle’s University District where the local chess luminaries gathered. He had been told that h...

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