Sick's Stadium - After The Pilots

After The Pilots

From 1972 to 1976, a Class A Seattle Rainiers team played at Sicks' to sparse audiences. In 1977, Major League Baseball returned to Seattle with the expansion Seattle Mariners, but not to Sick's Stadium; rather, to the Kingdome (which, ironically, was approved by area voters as a condition of Seattle getting the Pilots). The Washington Huskies baseball team used the venue during the 1973 season while its venue, Graves Field, was renovated. In 1979 Sicks' Stadium was demolished, and it is now the site of a Lowe's home improvement store. The stadium site is currently marked by a sign (on the corner of Rainier and McClellan) and a replica of home plate (near the Lowe's exit) as well as markings in the store where the bases would have been. Home plate is next to the exit doors of the store and behind the wall 60 feet 6 inches away near the cash registers is a circle where the mound and pitching rubber would have been, the store also contains a glass display case containing some Pilots, Rainiers, and Angels mementos. Several dozen box seats from Sicks' Stadium were transported to Fairbanks, Alaska and installed in that city's Growden Memorial Park, which hosts collegiate summer baseball.