The Disaster of Sick's Stadium

An interactive timeline by Dash

Editor’s note: This piece was created during the 2024 session of History Lab, a summer intensive for high school students interested in local history and storytelling. Over the course of two weeks, participants explore creative ways to interpret and share history, conduct research, and produce a work of historical interpretation in a digital medium on a topic of their choosing. The 2024 cohort explored histories of Seattle's built environment - including the question: how do buildings and structures help us remember or forget the past? 

What caused the Seattle Pilots' first season to also be their last? Click here or on the photo below to learn more about early Seattle baseball history and Sick's Stadium in this interactive timeline.

Sick's Seattle Stadium, circa 1938. MOHAI, PEMCO Webster & Stevens Collection, 1983.10.4858