Tightwad Hill - where baseball games could be viewed for free....

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while trampling produce. I used to go to Pilots games at Sicks' Stadium when I was a kid.)

Tightwad Hill (Seattle)

"Tightwad Hill is a celebrated part of Seattle baseball lore. Situated in the Rainier Valley on a rise east of Rainier Avenue and just north of McClellan Street, the hillside was owned for decades by farmers Pasquale and Domenico Vacca, immigrant brothers from Italy whose vegetable gardens offered panoramic views of Dugdale Park (1913-1932) and then Sicks' Stadium, which was built in 1938 after Dugdale burned to the ground. Try as they might, the Vaccas couldn't prevent freeloading baseball fans from trampling through their fields to watch ballgames, and thus was born the name Tightwad Hill or, to some, Cheapskate Hill. The next generation of Vaccas was more amenable, welcoming fans to watch from their yard, and even from the front porch of their farmhouse. The farm was bulldozed in the 1950s to make way for apartment buildings, but parts of Tightwad Hill remained, and hundreds of cheapskates enjoyed one last freebie when Jimi Hendrix played Sicks' Stadium on July 26, 1970."



https://historylink.org/File/22620

[chicoescuela]

1. Very short history for the Pilots

I remember them joining the league at the same time as Expos, Padres and Royals.
Most of what I know about the Pilots came from Jim Bouton’s book. It was a fun read.

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2. Yes it was.

Then they went to Milwaukee. I remember Bouton was on the team - but I was kind of young so don't remember a lot. My grandmother was a huge Rainiers fan.

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3. The Pilots manager, Joe Schultz, used to exhort his players to get some runs

so they could then go “pound some Budweiser!”

His other catch phrase was a little more colorful.

[chicoescuela]

4. F@cksh@t and sh@tf@ck if I remember correctly

[rsdsharp]

5. You do!