Saturday night is the "Turn Back the Clock Night" promotion for the Seattle Mariners, and Fox Sports Northwest has scheduled a bit of nostalgia in support of that game.
At 4 p.m. Saturday, FSN will broadcast an original documentary called "The Seattle Rainiers."
According to FSN spokesman Brian Piper, the 90-minute program will feature original footage of Rainiers baseball in Seattle during the Great Depression, player interviews and photographs.
"Baseball fans will learn about local high school players such as Fred Hutchinson, Edo Vanni, and Dewey Soriano who contributed to the Rainiers club winning five Pacific Coast League titles during their 27-year franchise history," Piper said in a release.
Then, at 5:30 p.m., FSN begins its pregame coverage of the Oakland A's at Mariners game. The M's will honor the 70th anniversary of the 1939 Seattle Rainiers, and I believe the first 20,000 will receive a replica Rainiers cap.
Of course, all baseball documentaries are judged against the amazing work of Ken Burns, whose Baseball series I continue to cycle through my VCR every few years.
I'm really looking forward to Burns' latest work, The National Parks: America's Best Idea, which is scheduled to debut this fall. The first segment is set to air Sept. 29 on PBS.
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Gesa Stadium has a seating capacity of 3,700 and is home to the Tri-City Dust Devils.
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Focus on the sweet, urged Linda Santo, because -- this is trite, but oh so true -- Ron would have wanted it that way.
Santo, the best baseball player ever produced in Seattle, finally made it into the Baseball Hall of Fame on Monday -- belatedly, and posthumously (or, as he once said in one of his endearing malapropisms, post-humorously). But he made it.
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City Market in Kennewick robbed
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City Market in Kennewick was robbed Monday evening, and police are looking for a suspect.
The store at 415 S. Rainier St. was robbed at gunpoint at 8:55 p.m.
The suspect is 5-foot-8 or 5-foot-9 and weighed 160 to 170 pounds.
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City Market in Kennewick was robbed Monday evening, and police are looking for a suspect.
The store at 415 S. Rainier St. was robbed at gunpoint at 8:55 p.m. Monday.
The suspect is 5'8" or 5'9" and weighed between 160 and 170 pounds. He was believed to be Hispanic or Asian. He wore a blue Aeropostale sweatshirt with the hood up and a blue baseball cap. A red bandana covered his face, and he was wearing dark-colored pants. He also was wearing gloves. The suspect was last seen walking west toward Kennewick Housing Authority.
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