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table of contents
  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright
  3. Contents
  4. Introduction: Train Ride to the Ballpark
  5. Pitching Change
    1. Extra Innings: “Loserville, USA,” 2000–2009
    2. Rally: Who Will Win the City? 2010–2019
    3. 18th Inning: Life and Breath in the Forever City
  6. Notes

NOTES

Introduction

  1. 1. “Ambitious Dog,” Puget Sound Dispatch, July 18, 1872, 1, column 6.

  2. 2. Murry Morgan, Skid Road: An Informal Portrait of Seattle (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2018), 67.

  3. 3. Heather McInstosh, “Northern Pacific Railroad and Seattle Development,” History Link, https://historylink.org/File/1734 (accessed September 2, 2022). All dollar figures that appear in the first, second, and third parts of this book are adjusted forward for inflation in 2022 dollars. Dollar figures cited in the fourth part are reprinted without adjustment from their source.

  4. 4. John Caldbick, “Washington Territorial Legislature Merges Tacoma City and New Tacoma to Take Effect on January 7, 1884,” HistoryLink, https://historylink.org/File/5062 (accessed September 2, 2022).

  5. 5. Morgan, Skid Road, 67.

  6. 6. Frederick Brown, “Cows in the Commons, Dogs on the Lawn: A History of Animals in Seattle” (PhD diss., University of Washington, 2010), 56–58.

  7. 7. Brown, “Cows in the Commons, Dogs on the Lawn,” 56–58.

  8. 8. Morgan, Skid Road, 73. In Too High and Too Steep (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2015), natural historian David B. Williams relays that the brief attempt at a citizen- railroad only made it as far as Renton—that is, a distance of about fourteen miles. Details about the “dinky” Seattle mill come from John Caldbick, “Henry Yesler’s steam-powered Seattle sawmill cuts its first lumber in 1853,” HistoryLink, https://www.historylink.org/file/760 (accessed April 8, 2023).

  9. 9. Scott Cline, “‘To Foster Honorable Pasttimes’: Baseball as Civic Endeavor in 1880s Seattle,” Pacific Northwest Quarterly 87, no. 4 (Fall 1996): 171–79.

  10. 10. Cline, “‘To Foster Honorable Pasttimes.’”

  11. 11. As mentioned earlier, “New York, Alki” was the first name given to the settlement that became Seattle—translated from the Chinook language, it means “New York, eventually.”

  12. 12. Cline, “‘To Foster Honorable Pasttimes.’”

  13. 13. Cited in Cline, “‘To Foster Honorable Pasttimes.’”

  14. 14. Shaun Scott, “Durkan, Seattle Police, and the Undermining of Civil Liberties,” Crosscut, July 15, 2020, https://tinyurl.com/2e2xkcpj.

  15. 15. Samuel Stein, Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State (New York: Verso Books, 2019), 118–23.

  16. 16. Paul Goldberger, Ballpark: Baseball in the American City (New York: Knopf, 2019), 9.

  17. 17. Ole Hanson, “Anarchists Tried Revolution in Seattle, but Never Got to First Base,” New York Times, February 9, 1919, 1.

  18. 18. “Times Terrors Chuckle as They Accept Challenge of P.I. Bunch,” Seattle Times, June 21, 1913, 9; “Times Rings in a Big Leaguer,” Seattle Post-Intelligencer, June 27, 1913, 13; “Umpires Favoritism Gives Pirates Tie with Terrors,” Seattle Times, June 30, 1913, 14. Account of the Seattle Potlatch riot of 1913 can be heard on a 1970–71 series of radio lectures delivered by Seattle historian Roger Sale—see Part 18, https://tinyurl.com/me6nwk3j (accessed December 31, 2022).

  19. 19. Julia Budlong, “What Happened in Seattle,” The Nation, August 29, 1928, 197–98.

  20. 20. Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., The Cycles of American History (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1987), loc. 4845, Kindle.

  21. 21. Schlesinger, loc. 74, Kindle.

  22. 22. Roger Sale, Seattle, Past to Present (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1976); James Lyons, Selling Seattle: Representing Contemporary Urban America (London: Wallflower Press, 2004); Fred Moody, Seattle and the Demons of Ambition: A Love Story, 1st ed. (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2003). The citation for Sale being “a devout Sonics fan” is seen in David Shields’s book Black Planet (New York: Crown, 1999), in which Shields details going to games with Sale, who reported on the team for Seattle Weekly and other publications (Shields, loc. 331, Kindle).

  23. 23. Sale, Seattle, Past to Present, 299.

  24. 24. Terry Anne Scott, ed., Seattle Sports: Play, Identity, and Pursuit in the Emerald City (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2020).

  25. 25. Morgan, Skid Road, 104–5. All population statistics sourced from the US Census (https://tinyurl.com/2p8a3tr6).

  26. 26. Robert E. Ficken and Charles P. LeWarne, Washington: A Centennial History (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1988), 29–48.

  27. 27. Moody, Seattle and the Demons of Ambition, 59.

Pitching Change

  1. 1. James Lyons, Selling Seattle: Representing Contemporary Urban America (New York: Wallflower Press, 2004), 166.

  2. 2. Quoted in Lyons, Selling Seattle.

  3. 3. Kim Murphy, “The Decline and Fall of Seattle,” Los Angeles Times, August 4, 2002.

  4. 4. Tom Verducci, “Joltin’ Junior,” Sports Illustrated, May 17, 1999: “‘They asked us,’ Griffey says about the ballpark design, ‘but I don’t know if they listened. They did what they wanted to.’”

  5. 5. “Decade after 9/11, ‘God Bless America’ Still Part of Baseball Experience,” Associated Press, August 11, 2011; “America’s Song,” Washington Post, September 9, 2021, https://tinyurl.com/3ekjf75u.

  6. 6. David Shields, “Being Ichiro,” New York Times Magazine, September 16, 2001, https://tinyurl.com/29ndunt8.

  7. 7. S. L. Price, “The Ichiro Paradox,” Sports Illustrated, July 8, 2002, https://tinyurl.com/ym5cyf32.

  8. 8. Glenn Nelson, “Race and Ichiro’s Muddled Mariners Legacy,” The Buzz: Glenn Nelson, July 24, 2012, https://tinyurl.com/2p96p82t.

Extra Innings

  1. 1. Sports records compiled from the sports-reference.com constellation of websites; “Memorable Moments Inside the Kingdome,” Seattle Post-Intelligencer, March 27, 2000, 46; stats pulled from Phil Loubere, “Defying Gravity,” Seattle Times, March 19, 2000, https://tinyurl.com/yeyvjjet.

  2. 2. “Dome’s Final Roar—Crowd Raises Last Cheer,” Seattle Times, March 27, 2000, A1; Lewis Kamb and Aliya Saperstein, “After the Blast, Treasure the Treasure Hunt,” Seattle Post-Intelligencer, March 27, 2000, 15.

  3. 3. Janet Burkitt, Caitlin Cleary, and Ferdinand M. de Leon, “As Walls Tumble, Seattle Parties,” Seattle Times, March 27, 2000, A7; Vanessa Ho, “By Land and by Sea, Far-Flung Crowds Take in the View,” Seattle Post-Intelligencer, March 27, 2000, 1.

  4. 4. Ron C. Judd, “Dome’s Demise Filled Local Airwaves,” Seattle Times, March 27, 2000, D1.

  5. 5. Burkitt, Cleary, and de Leon, “As Walls Tumble, Seattle Parties.”

  6. 6. Nicole Brodeur, “Kingdome Blast Will Push Some Out,” Seattle Times, March 19, 2000, B1

  7. 7. Aliya Saperstein and Robert L. Jamieson Jr., “Down and Dirty,” Seattle Post- Intelligencer, March 27, 2000, 1; “The Big Tumble Makes a Rumble,” Seattle Post- Intelligencer, March 27, 2000, A13.

  8. 8. Kim Murphy, “The Decline and Fall of Seattle,” Los Angeles Times, August 4, 2002, https://tinyurl.com/2cdv2dkj.

  9. 9. “Dome’s Final Roar—Crowd Raises Last Cheer,” Seattle Times, March 27, 2000, A1.

  10. 10. “Seattle’s Dome, Age 24, Relic of a Bygone Day,” Seattle Times, March 26, 2000, B6.

  11. 11. James Lyons, Selling Seattle: Representing Contemporary Urban America (New York: Wallflower Press, 2004), 5–23.

  12. 12. David Brooks, “The Rise of the Latte Town,” Washington Examiner, September 15, 1997, https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/weekly-standard/the-rise-of-the-latte-town.

  13. 13. Brooks, “Rise of the Latte Town.”

  14. 14. Geoffrey Nunberg, Talking Right (New York: PublicAffairs, 2007); Jon Kelly, “Why Are Lattes Associated with Liberals,” BBC News, October 6, 2014.

  15. 15. Jean Godden, “It’ll Cost Us to Get into Name Game,” Seattle Times, August 1, 1999, B1; “Surfers to Slammers, Naming Our WNBA Team,” Seattle Times, June 13, 1999, B2.

  16. 16. Janet Bunyan, “The Modern Woman,” Seattle Post-Intelligencer, November 28, 1915, 46.

  17. 17. “Hockeyettes Show Skill at Pastime,” Seattle Times, February 11, 1917, 29.

  18. 18. Pamela Grundy and Susan Shackelford, Shattering the Glass: The Remarkable History of Women’s Basketball (New York: New Press, 2005), 125.

  19. 19. “The Black Gender Gap in Educational Attainment: Historical Trends and Racial Comparisons,” Demography, 2011, cited in https://journalistsresource.org/economics/black-gender-gap-college/ (accessed June 27, 2022).

  20. 20. Kimberlé Crenshaw, “Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex,” University of Chicago Legal Forum 1 (1989): 163.

  21. 21. Jayda Evans, “To Threatt, It’s Not Too Late,” Seattle Times, May 14, 2000, C14.

  22. 22. Evans, “To Threatt, It’s Not Too Late.”

  23. 23. Sheldon Spencer, “Team U.S.A. Takes U.W. to School,” Seattle Post-Intelligencer, November 29, 1995, C1; Dick Rockney, “Simply the Best,” Seattle Times, November 28, 1995, D1.

  24. 24. Steve Kelley, “Storm Has Cause for Celebration,” Seattle Times, June 2, 2000, D1.

  25. 25. Kelley, “Storm Has Cause for Celebration.”

  26. 26. Jayda Evans, “Storm Is One of First with Gay Pride Night,” Seattle Times, June 23, 2000, D1.

  27. 27. Exley quoted in David Remnick, “Passions Run Deep for Devoted Giants Fans,” Washington Post, October 26, 1991, https://tinyurl.com/49msd54n.

  28. 28. Sean Gregory, “The Science of Sound: How Seattle Got So Darn Loud,” Time, September 27, 2013; Elliott Almond, “Stadium Plan Here Not Best or Worst,” Seattle Times, June 4, 1997, A1.

  29. 29. Chris Serb, War Football: World War I and the Birth of the NFL (Washington, DC: Rowman & Littlefield, 2019), 73.

  30. 30. Jesse Berrett, Pigskin Nation: How the NFL Remade American Politics (Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2018), 208.

  31. 31. Erik Lacitis, “On Lawns and on Street Corners, This Is the Sign,” Seattle Times, January 14, 2003, E1.

  32. 32. Shaun Scott, “Remembering 9/11: The Inextricable Link between Football, War,” Sports Illustrated, September 9, 2016.

  33. 33. José Miguel Romero, “Made in Washington,” Seattle Times, January 21, 2006, D1; Greg Bishop, “His Commitment Goes beyond Field,” Seattle Times, February 4, 2006, D8; “Seahawks’ Fisher Finds Military Tour Sobering,” espn.com, April 7, 2006; “Seahawks Defensive End Fisher Charged with Assault,” espn.com, June 1, 2006.

  34. 34. Fisher quoted in “Seahawk End Takes Oath,” Associated Press, November 3, 2005, https://tinyurl.com/yc7r4jxt; “USO,” nfl.com, https://tinyurl.com/3z34czux (accessed June 27, 2022).

  35. 35. “Air Guardsman Soars into Super Bowl XL,” Air Force News, January 25, 2006, https://tinyurl.com/yfexycmk; “Seahawks Defensive End Fisher Charged with Assault,” espn.com, June 1, 2006; Danny O’Neil, “Assault Charge Dropped against Seahawks Defensive End Fisher,” Seattle Times, February 22, 2007.

  36. 36. Steve Bisheff, “Bettis Is the Story of Super Bowl Week,” Orange County Register,https://tinyurl.com/ysk4ny9v (accessed June 27, 2020).

  37. 37. Joshua Hayes, “Steelers vs. Seahawks: Examining the Controversial Calls of Super Bowl XL,” Bleacher Report, September 27, 2011, https://tinyurl.com/fu75psyu.

  38. 38. “Pulse: Bad Calls!,” espn.com, February 6, 2006, https://tinyurl.com/ycktrpfu.

  39. 39. John Thorn, “Forget What You Know about the Black Sox Scandal,” New York Times, October 9, 2019.

  40. 40. Dan E. Moldea, Interference: How Organized Crime Influences Professional Football (New York: William Morrow, 1989); the first chapter of this book is available at www.moldea.com/nfl.html (accessed December 30, 2022).

  41. 41. Lance Pugmire, “Donaghy Pleads Guilty in Scheme,” Los Angeles Times, August 26, 2007, https://tinyurl.com/42vr6v7b.

  42. 42. “Condoleezza Is Super Bowl Bound,” Associated Press, February 1, 2006, https://tinyurl.com/muewbpnb.

  43. 43. Jayda Evans, “Dunn Has Eye on Bird as First Pick in Draft,” Seattle Times, April 18, 2002, D1.

  44. 44. Jeff Goldberg, Bird at the Buzzer: UConn, Notre Dame, and a Women’s Basketball Classic (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2013), loc. 149, Kindle.

  45. 45. Rocker as quoted in Jeff Pearlman, “At Full Blast,” Sports Illustrated, December 27, 1999, https://tinyurl.com/5dcyvs93.

  46. 46. Bush quoted in Associated Press, “President Calls Abortion Fight a ‘Noble Cause,’” NBC News, January 23, 2006, https://tinyurl.com/mt7kw8z6.

  47. 47. Steve Kelley, “Punishment Is the Crime in Sue’s Bet with Mitch,” Seattle Times, July 20, 2003, D1.

  48. 48. Kelley, “Punishment Is the Crime.”

  49. 49. Associated Press, “Bird Changed Mind Following Senator’s Response,” espn.com, July 22, 2002, https://tinyurl.com/3v9x7nju.

  50. 50. Levy as quoted in Associated Press, “Bird Changed Mind Following Senator’s Response.”

  51. 51. Jayda Evans, “Artistic Photos of Jackson May Stir Up a Storm of Controversy,” Seattle Times, June 18, 2004, E1.

  52. 52. “Report: Japan publication offered $1m for naked photo,” espn.com, April 15, 2001, https://tinyurl.com/2t86mz4a; David Shields, New York Times Magazine, September 16, 2001, https://tinyurl.com/2t86mz4a.

  53. 53. Les Carpenter, “Storm Title Would Give Seattle …,” Seattle Times, October 12, 2004, D1.

  54. 54. Kristen Lappas’s 2022 documentary Dream On deals somewhat with racism and privilege in the coverage of women’s basketball, with many Black players feeling as if Rebecca Lobo was retained on the 1996 USA women’s basketball team at least in part because of her marketability to white fans.

  55. 55. Jayda Evans, “Globetrotters: WNBA Players Spending Offseason Overseas,” Seattle Times, May 19, 2005, https://tinyurl.com/yxdbrc49; Jayda Evans, “Westlake Crowd Salutes Storm,” Seattle Times, October 16, 2004, D3.

  56. 56. Blaine Newnham, “Storm Title Blurred by Reality of WNBA Economics,” Seattle Times, October 20, 2004, C2.

  57. 57. Jayda Evans, “Westlake Crowd Salutes Storm,” Seattle Times, October 16, 2004, D3.

  58. 58. Dave Zirin, Bad Sports: How Owners Are Ruining the Games We Love (New York: New Press, 2010), 65.

  59. 59. Dave Zirin, “Economics, Race, and the N.B.A. Lockout,” New Yorker, October 24, 2011, https://tinyurl.com/5xj2c7hw.

  60. 60. Zirin, Bad Sports, 63.

  61. 61. Jordan Ritter Conn, “How the Hornets and Hurricane Katrina Paved the Way for the OKC Thunder,” The Ringer, October 24, 2019, https://tinyurl.com/muabyz6a.

  62. 62. Schoenfeld as quoted in Zirin, Bad Sports, 62.

  63. 63. Molly Yanity, “Storm Deal ‘Driven by the Enthusiasm of the Fans,” Seattle Post- Intelligencer, January 9, 2008, A1.

  64. 64. Paul Waldman, “Gay Rights Opponents’ Last Argument,” CNN, March 29, 2013, https://tinyurl.com/bdevfw9a; “Leaders: Nickles, Largent,” The Oklahoman, July 16, 1996, https://tinyurl.com/y9uvb54e.

  65. 65. Jon Finkel, Hoops Heist: Seattle, the Sonics, and How a Stolen Team’s Legacy Gave Rise to the NBA’s Secret Empire (Seattle: Slow Grind Media, 2020), 190–92.

  66. 66. Kevin Durant quoted in Jon Finkel, Hoops Heist, 192.

  67. 67. Greg Johns, “Licata Regrets His ‘Flip Remark’ about Cultural Value of Sonics,” Seattle Post-Intelligencer, March 23, 2011, https://tinyurl.com/ybf8zyed; “What’s the Matter with Washington Athletics,” Washington Alumnus, October 1908, 10.

  68. 68. Bill Simmons, “Ready for a Sub-.500 Playoff Team?,” espn.com, September 24, 2010, https://tinyurl.com/5actrne2.

  69. 69. Kirsten Grind, The Lost Bank: The Story of Washington Mutual—The Biggest Bank Failure in American History (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2012).

  70. 70. Roth quoted in “Sounders FC by Fans’ Acclamation,” Seattle Post-Intelligencer, April 8, 2008, 17.

  71. 71. Beck quoted in Dave Zirin, “Glenn Beck’s Blues: Why the Far Right Hates the World Cup,” The Nation, June 14, 2010, https://tinyurl.com/2p98jwpb.

  72. 72. Chuck Klosterman, Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto (New York: Scribner, 2003), 94.

  73. 73. See the ESPN special Beautiful Game Turned Ugly: Racism in Europe’s Soccer Arenas, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-iRLmaZf4A (accessed June 27, 2022); Jay Caspian Kang, “The Dark Side of American Soccer Culture,” New York Times, July 17, 2016, https://tinyurl.com/mujjd8ax.

  74. 74. Thomas Frank, What’s the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Heart of America (New York: Henry Holt, 2005), 16.

  75. 75. Brooks, “Rise of the Latte Town”; David Brooks, “One Nation, Slightly Divisible,” The Atlantic, December 2001, https://tinyurl.com/yambp4s4.

Rally

  1. 1. “Remarks by the President Honoring the Super Bowl Champion Seattle Seahawks,” whitehouse.gov, May 21, 2014, https://tinyurl.com/bduf4m6p.

  2. 2. “Remarks by the President Honoring the Super Bowl Champion Seattle Seahawks.”

  3. 3. Jerry Brewer, Pass Judgment: Inside the Settle Seahawks’ Super Bowl XLIX Season and the Play That Dashed a Dream, loc. 92, 60, Kindle.

  4. 4. Allen quoted in Pete Carroll, Win Forever: Live, Work, and Play Like a Champion (Portfolio, 2014), loc. 12, 445, Kindle.

  5. 5. Quoted in Chris Tomasson, “Seahawks Coach Pete Carroll Came Close to Being the Vikings’ QB for 1987 Strike Replacement Games,” twincities.com, October 7, 2020, https://tinyurl.com/2tnxnuzd.

  6. 6. Alyssa Roenigk, “NFL: Seahawks’ New Practice Techniques.” espn.com, August 21, 2013, https://tinyurl.com/5yte4s39.

  7. 7. Brewer, Pass Judgment, loc. 92, Kindle.

  8. 8. Robin Wright, “The Mask That Inspired the Seahawks Logo,” burkemuseum.org, January 28, 2014, https://tinyurl.com/bdzhfrk9.

  9. 9. Stephen Mihm, “How the Department of Defense Bankrolled Silicon Valley,” New York Times, July 9, 2019; Charles Piller, “‘Evil Empire’ Is Unlikely to Fall, but Competition Is at the Gates,” Los Angeles Times, April 5, 1999; Mike Ricciuti, “Can Sun-Microsoft Ceasefire Halt the War?,” cnet.com, April 6, 2004, https://tinyurl.com/mrtvftmc; “America’s 50 Best Cities,” Bloomberg, September 28, 2012, https://tinyurl.com/45rhja7w.

  10. 10. John Breech, “49ers Fans Not Happy That New SF Transit Seats Are Seahawks Colors,” CBS Sports, April 18, 2014, https://tinyurl.com/mrxt2759.

  11. 11. Love Bettina L. and Brandelyn Tosoly, “Reality or Rhetoric? Barack Obama and Post-Racial America,” Race, Gender & Class Journal 17, nos. 3–4 (2010): 19–37.

  12. 12. Cindy Boren, “Richard Sherman Frustrated by Reaction, Equates ‘Thug’ with Racial Slur,” Washington Post, January 23, 2014, https://tinyurl.com/3y3hup62; Stephen A. Crockett Jr., “Column: Stop Calling Richard Sherman a Thug,” Denver Post, January 22, 2014, https://tinyurl.com/bdzus82k.

  13. 13. Josh Katzowitz, “Time Names Richard Sherman One of the Most 100 Influential People,” CBS Sports, https://tinyurl.com/335b47r7 (accessed June 29, 2022).

  14. 14. Steve Phillips, Brown Is the New White: How the Demographic Revolution Has Created a New American Majority, revised and updated ed. (New York: New Press, 2018), loc. 127, Kindle.

  15. 15. Kate Rogers and Nick Well, “Seattle Passed a $15 Minimum Wage Law in 2014. Here’s How It’s Turned Out So Far,” CNBC, January 2, 2020, https://tinyurl.com/29m5hnxp.

  16. 16. David Steele, “The Truth about Marshawn Lynch from the 1-Yard Line,” Sporting News, February 4, 2015, https://tinyurl.com/3mwdmsf7.

  17. 17. Scott Davis, “Bombshell ESPN Report Says Patriots’ ‘Spygate’ Scandal Was Way Worse Than People Realized,” Business Insider, September 2015, https://www.businessinsider.com/espn-report-patriots-spygate-scandal-2015–9.

  18. 18. “Super Bowl XLIX: New England Patriots vs Seattle Seahawks Odds—NFL—February 1, 2015,” gambletron2000.com, https://www.gambletron2000.com/nfl/11502/super-bowl-xlix-new-england-patriots-vs-seattle-seahawks (accessed June 29, 2022).

  19. 19. Brewer, Pass Judgment, loc. 68, Kindle.

  20. 20. Tom Pelissero, “Oakland Roots Created Marshawn Lynch’s ‘Beast Mode,’” USA Today, January 15, 2014, https://tinyurl.com/mphvf82f.

  21. 21. Dave Zirin, “The Conspiracy Theory Surrounding the Seahawks’ Last Play,” The Nation, https://tinyurl.com/ycxa7w5f (accessed December 31, 2022).

  22. 22. Luke Whelan, “Kayaktavists Take Over Seattle’s Port to Protest Shell Oil’s Arctic Drilling Rig,” Mother Jones, May 17, 2015, https://tinyurl.com/2dvv3e92.

  23. 23. “Seattle City Council Votes against Area for Arena,” Sports Illustrated, https://tinyurl.com/ym9r9vc6 (accessed June 29, 2022); Kshama Sawant, “My Remarks on the Occidental Street Vacation,” https://tinyurl.com/4err28jy (accessed June 29, 2022); Doug Trumm, “City Council Rejects Hansen’s Street Vacation Request,” The Urbanist, May 3, 2016, https://tinyurl.com/d8pp4vmu.

  24. 24. “This Is Clearly Not about Basketball,” Seattlish, May 3, 2016, https://tinyurl.com/3byptkj7.

  25. 25. Rob Ketcherside, “True Story: Trump’s Family Roots in Seattle,” Crosscut, July 20, 2016, https://tinyurl.com/smnhrw5p; Jaclyn Anglis, “Donald Trump’s Illegal Emigrant Grandfather Was Banished from Germany for Dodging the Draft,” All That’s Interesting, December 28, 2021, https://tinyurl.com/2a53m6bf; Bryan Armen Graham, “Donald Trump Wanted a Fight with Athletes. They May Well Have Doomed Him,” The Guardian, November 9, 2020, https://tinyurl.com/58f8anth.

  26. 26. Samuel Stein, Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State (New York: Verso Books, 2019), 118–23.

  27. 27. “Remembering … STICKBALL!” Tenement Museum, April 16, 2020, https://tinyurl.com/yc8xe48c.

  28. 28. Glenn Kessler, “Robert Moses and the Saga of the Racist Parkway Bridges,” Washington Post, November 10, 2021, https://tinyurl.com/3xzt6ewn; James C. McKinley Jr., “Officers Rally and Dinkins Is Their Target,” New York Times, September 17, 1992; Laura Nahmias, “The Forgotten City Hall Riot,” New York Magazine, October 4, 2021.

  29. 29. Jeff Pearman, “At Full Blast,” Sports Illustrated, December 27, 1999, https://tinyurl.com/5dcyvs93; Michael Cooper, “Giuliani Announces a Program to Reduce Illegal Drug Use,” New York Times, October 2, 1997, https://tinyurl.com/5wjnebfv.

  30. 30. “Executive Order: Enhancing Public Safety in the Interior of the United States—The White House,” https://tinyurl.com/yck55z8w (accessed June 29, 2022).

  31. 31. Loren Collingwood and Benjamin Gonzalez O’Brien, Sanctuary Cities: The Politics of Refuge (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2019), 28; Thomas Fuller, “San Francisco Sues Trump over ‘Sanctuary Cities’ Order, New York Times, January 31, 2017; Daniel Beekman, “Seattle Sues Trump Administration over ‘Sanctuary Cities’ Order,” Seattle Times, March 29, 2017.

  32. 32. Latria Graham, “Michael Bennett’s NFL Black Power Salute Could Change Sports Protest,” The Guardian, September 19, 2017, https://tinyurl.com/2xhctp9h; Dave Zirin, The Kaepernick Effect: Taking a Knee, Changing the World (New York: New Press, 2021).

  33. 33. Tricia Romano, “Seahawks So Woke,” Rolling Stone, December 14, 2017, https://tinyurl.com/e2sb8yn3; Les Carpenter, “How the Seattle Seahawks Became the NFL’s Most Outspoken Team,” The Guardian, December 15, 2016, https://tinyurl.com/muw6cbnz.

  34. 34. “No, Michael Bennett Did Not Burn an American Flag in Seahawks Locker Room,” Q13 News, September 29, 2017, https://tinyurl.com/trb4jzjm.

  35. 35. “Megan Rapinoe Refuses to Back Down over Donald Trump and White House,” The Guardian, June 27, 2019, https://tinyurl.com/5a7spphu; Bryan Armen Graham, “Donald Trump Wanted a Fight with Athletes. They May Well Have Doomed Him,” The Guardian, November 9, 2020, https://tinyurl.com/58f8anth; Tyler Tynes, “The Minnesota Lynx’s Day of Service Didn’t Need the White House,” sbnation.com, June 6, 2018, https://tinyurl.com/yz9n9hn6; Ben Church and Don Riddell, “Bird Remembers When Trump Targeted Girlfriend Rapinoe,” CNN, https://tinyurl.com/5n8mztcm (accessed June 29, 2022).

  36. 36. Facts about US presidents, athletics, and ableism compiled from a number of sources. Dean Knetter, “How Theordore Roosevelt Helped Create America’s Sports Culture,” wpr.org, August 20, 2019, https://tinyurl.com/ybwsru8a; Tom Porter, “How FDR kept his partial paralysis a secret,” Business Insider, May 10, 2019, https://tinyurl.com/5n7uvdu2; Howard Markel, “John F. Kennedy Kept These Medical Struggles Private,” PBS, November 22, 2019, https://tinyurl.com/3ke7p98b; Richard L. Berke, “Politicians Find Jogging with Clinton Is No Stroll in the Park,” New York Times, July 26, 1993, https://tinyurl.com/5yzdaf4t; Leander Schaerlaeckens, “Was Donald Trump Good at Baseball,” Slate, May 5, 2020, https://tinyurl.com/bden7bcv.

  37. 37. Lisa Donavan, “President Trump Calls Chicago, New York ‘Stupidly Run’ When Fox News Host Asked about Violent Crime in Both Cities,” Chicago Tribune, July 17, 2020, https://tinyurl.com/msr78u76.

  38. 38. Daniel Beekman and Justin Mayor, “Jenny Durkan Topped Cary Moon in Most Seattle Precincts,” Seattle Times, November 11, 2017.

  39. 39. Quoted in Brian Robinson, “Mayor Jenny Durkan Is a Sports Fan Who Prioritizes Bringing the Sonics Back,” Sonics Rising, January 18, 2018, https://tinyurl.com/2862m2pw.

  40. 40. Geoff Baker, “The Closer: How Mayor Durkan Helped Convince NHL Execs to Recommend Seattle Expansion,” The Spokesman-Review, October 3, 2018, https://tinyurl.com/aajvuzcy.

  41. 41. Ashley Stewart, “Amazon, Vulcan, and CenturyLink Top List of Donors,” Business Journal, November 2, 2017, https://tinyurl.com/4papyd6w.

  42. 42. “Teresa Mosqueda Archives,” PubliCola, https://tinyurl.com/4jbukvt9 (accessed June 29, 2022): “It should also be noted that were it not for JumpStart in 2020, we would have faced an austerity budget. In 2022 and beyond, funding is dedicated to the areas noted in the codified spend plan which will create a more resilient and equitable economy.”

  43. 43. “This Is the First Time in Three Years Anybody Has Asked Me about Pickleball,” Seattle Metro Pickleball, October 25, 2020, https://tinyurl.com/4rhtmczc.

  44. 44. Benjamin Maritz and Dilip Wagle, “Homelessness in Seattle and Surrounds: Why Does King County Face a Crisis?,” https://tinyurl.com/dvx4m5f7 (accessed June 29, 2022); “Homeless in Seattle: ‘Each Year, the Numbers Keep Rising,’” Real Change News, https://tinyurl.com/2t24v4wv (accessed June 29, 2022).

  45. 45. Emma Prestwich, “Badass Runner Fights Off Attacker in Public Washroom.” HuffPost, March 13, 2017, https://tinyurl.com/5n6b6mkd; Nicole Jennings, “Woman Attacked while Running at Green Lake Warns Other Joggers,” mynorthwest.com, October 2, 2018, https://tinyurl.com/4nv6zmad.

  46. 46. Mike Rosenberg, “King County Council Approves $135 Million in Taxpayer Funds,” Seattle Times, September 5, 2018, https://tinyurl.com/bfd5sh4e; Menola Secaira, “Despite Criticism, King County Council Gives Mariners $135M,” Crosscut, September 17, 2018, https://tinyurl.com/24h8u93h.

  47. 47. Geoff Baker and Mike Baker, “Mariners Execs Faced Workplace Complaints,” Seattle Times, July 25, 2018, https://tinyurl.com/yjusz7eh.

  48. 48. Daniel Beekman and Lewis Kamb, “Texts by Seattle Mayor, Council Member Shed Light on Head-Tax Repeal,” The Spokesman-Review, https://tinyurl.com/msyk4mb4 (accessed June 29, 2022); Lewis Kamb, “Seattle Agrees to Pay $35,000 to Settle Lawsuit Alleging City Council Broke Open Meetings Law over Head Tax Repeal,” Seattle Times, October 19, 2020, https://tinyurl.com/2p845nyh.

  49. 49. Tara Law, “Seattle Mayor Responds to President Trump: My City ‘Isn’t Afraid of Immigrants,’” Time, April 13, 2019, https://tinyurl.com/2c5h3myy.

  50. 50. Lisa Edge, “Despite the Data, the ‘Freeattle’ Myth Persists,” Real Change News, December 27, 2017, https://tinyurl.com/2y2wzpj8; David Kroman, “Survey Says Seattle Is Not ‘Freeattle,’” Crosscut, March 2, 2017, https://tinyurl.com/ytjzkzyd.

  51. 51. Edge, “Despite the Data, the ‘Freeattle’ Myth Persists.”

  52. 52. Matt Watson, “How Conservative Anti-Homeless Groups Are Rebranding to Recruit New Members,” Medium, April 20, 2019, https://tinyurl.com/4syshamw; the Seattle Times Editorial Board, “Seattle Should Reject Head Tax on Jobs,” Seattle Times, April 20, 2018, https://tinyurl.com/323256z9.

  53. 53. Paul Kiernan, “Conservative Activist Grabbed Trump’s Eye on Diversity Training,” Wall Street Journal, October 9, 2020; Benjamin Wallace-Wells, “How a Conservative Activist Invented the Conflict over Critical Race Theory,” New Yorker, June 18, 2021.

  54. 54. “The Undoing of Our Public Lands and National Parks,” National Parks Conservation Association, January 21, 2021, https://tinyurl.com/4x4arzaj; Emily Holden, Jimmy Tobias, and Alvin Chang, “Revealed: The Full Extent of Trump’s ‘Meat Cleaver’ Assault on US Wilderness,” The Guardian, October 26, 2020, https://tinyurl.com/5n6thpmj; Wes Siler, “The Trump Presidency Is the Worst Ever for Public Lands,” outsideonline.com, May 29, 2020, https://tinyurl.com/3dceu77t.

  55. 55. Dae Shik Kim Hawkins Jr. and Guy Oron, “Seattle Spent over $10 Million on Homeless Sweeps in 2017,” South Seattle Emerald, May 15, 2018, https://tinyurl.com/2m6csz7k; Benjamin Maritz and Dilip Wagle, “Homelessness in Seattle and Surrounds: Why Does King County Face a Crisis?,” https://tinyurl.com/mrwp4njr (accessed June 29, 2022).

  56. 56. Manifesto in Henri Lefebvre, Writings on Cities (Hoboken, NJ: Blackwell Publishers, 1996).

  57. 57. Daniel Beekman, “Yard Sign for Seattle City Council Candidate Spray-Painted with Racial Slur, Drawing Condemnation,” Seattle Times, October 30, 2019, https://tinyurl.com/25y7n9up.

  58. 58. Per data from the Seattle Ethics & Elections Commission (SEEC), Mariners CEO Kevin Mather and team partner Christopher Larson contributed a combined $7,000 to the corporate political action committee “People for Seattle”—see donation data at the following links: https://tinyurl.com/2unwufp2 (accessed December 29, 2022); https://tinyurl.com/hz8pdb7f (accessed December 29, 2022). Full list of donors for election cycle is searchable at SEEC website, https://tinyurl.com/4ss32frh (accessed December 29, 2022).

  59. 59. Daniel Beekman, “What Are the Political Lines in Your Seattle Neighborhood?,” Seattle Times, December 4, 2019, https://tinyurl.com/yzwjsnr6.

  60. 60. Christopher Rufo, “The Dangerous New Idea Inspiring Criminal-Justice Activists,” New York Post, December 28, 2019, https://tinyurl.com/9f4cdnf7.

  61. 61. Sandra Haarsager, Bertha Knight Landes of Seattle: Big-City Mayor (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1994), 110–15.

  62. 62. Jane Jacobs, Vital Little Plans: The Short Works of Jane Jacobs, edited by Samuel Zipp and Nathan Storring (New York: Random House, 2016), 133.

  63. 63. Norm Stamper, Breaking Rank: A Top Cop’s Exposé of the Dark Side of American Policing (New York: Bold Type Books, 2005), 33.

  64. 64. Research compiled at Shaun Scott for D4 Twitter thread, April 17, 2019, https://tinyurl.com/29dh595v (accessed December 31, 2022). Data comes from King County Assessor’s public database, linked at Shaun Scott for D4 Twitter thread, April 17, 2019; Scott Hanson, “Seattle Considering What to Do with 4 Public Golf Courses,” Seattle Times, June 6, 2019.

  65. 65. Katherine Anne Long, “Are Seattle’s Exclusive Private Golf Courses Getting a Huge Tax Break?,” Seattle Times, June 20, 2020, https://tinyurl.com/2jy42ykb.

  66. 66. Jon Marmor, “Progress Spelled Doom for Old University Golf Course,” UW Magazine, March 1, 1999, https://tinyurl.com/y2487rdm.

  67. 67. Mike Davis, Old Gods, New Enigmas: Marx’s Lost Theory (New York: Verso Books, 2018), loc. 3559, Kindle.

  68. 68. “What’s the Matter with Washington Athletics,” Washington Alumnus, October 1908, 10; “History of Voter-Approved Plans,” Sound Transit, https://tinyurl.com/ma3aupme (accessed June 29, 2022).

  69. 69. Davarian L. Baldwin, In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universities Are Plundering Our Cities (New York: Bold Type Books, 2021), 7.

  70. 70. “The Economic Contribution of the University of Washington to the Statewide and Local Economies,” University of Washington, November 2019, http://tinyurl.com/yc558ppc.

  71. 71. For more on biopolitics and the blood industry, see Kathleen McLaughlin, Blood Money: The Story of Life, Death, and Profit Inside America’s Blood Industry (New York: Atria/One Signal Publishers, 2023).

  72. 72. Paige Browning, “Pay Student Athletes, WA Lawmaker Says. The NCAA Makes Millions off Them,” KUOW, January 24, 2019, https://tinyurl.com/2zdkyauc; HB 1084 2019-20: Concerning Unfair Practices Involving Compensation of Athletes in Higher Education, Washington State Legislature, https://tinyurl.com/4kax4h9x (accessed June 29, 2022).

  73. 73. Browning, “Pay Student Athletes, WA Lawmaker Says.”

18th Inning

  1. 1. “Astros Top Mariners,” Associated Press, October 15, 2022, https://tinyurl.com/ynsmuj6t.

  2. 2. Tony Schick and Jes Burns, “Despite What the Logging Industry Says, Cutting Down Trees Isn’t Stopping Catastrophic Wildfires,” Oregon Public Broadcasting, October 31, 2020, https://tinyurl.com/5ycd93wt.

  3. 3. Chris Priest, “Mayor Durkan Cancels 35th Ave NE Bike Lanes,” The Urbanist, March 26, 2019, https://tinyurl.com/2w2efnvu.

  4. 4. Mike Lindblom, “West Seattle Bridge Reopened Saturday Night,” Seattle Times, September 18, 2022, https://tinyurl.com/sawmnnun.

  5. 5. Jed Kolko, “U.S. Population Density Went Up in the 2010s,” New York Times, September 5, 2021, 16.

  6. 6. Kristen Gowdy, “Mariners to Appear on ‘Sunday Night Baseball’ for First Time since 2004,” Seattle Times, July 15, 2016, https://tinyurl.com/4bu9yp8d.

  7. 7. “Neighbors to Get Acquainted, Seattleites Urged to ‘Thaw,’” Seattle Daily Times, March 26, 1920, 1.

  8. 8. This happened; I was there, in attendance, at the Game 3 overtime thriller on September 4, 2022.

  9. 9. Baseball payroll statistics compiled from “Fueled by Sports,” https://tinyurl.com/2a5h72rk (accessed December 29, 2022); stats corroborated at “MLB Payrolls,” http://www.stevetheump.com/Payrolls.htm (accessed December 29, 2022).

  10. 10. “A Timeline of COVID-19 Developments in 2020,” AJMC, January 1, 2021, https://tinyurl.com/33dd96mb.

  11. 11. Sande LaMotte, “No Need to Wipe Down Groceries or Takeout, Experts Say, but Do Wash Your Hands,” CNN, April 26, 2020, https://tinyurl.com/mpm2afv6.

  12. 12. “COVID Incidence, Mortality Rates Remain Much Higher in Rural Areas,” University of Iowa College of Public Health, December 8, 2021, https://tinyurl.com/4kuybs4z.

  13. 13. “Visual Timeline of the Day That Changed Everything: March 11,” espn.com, March 11, 2021, https://tinyurl.com/5b8n6rv2.

  14. 14. Labor statistics pulled from a variety of sources, chiefly the Bureau of Labor Statistics and others. All websites accessed on June 25, 2022. On 2.7 million grocery workers in September 2019, see “2.7 million grocery store workers in September 2019,” https://tinyurl.com/ytmjrem4; on 1.7 million rideshare drivers in 2022, see “1.7 million rideshare drivers,” https://tinyurl.com/y3bb43ns; on 5.3 million nurses, see “5.3 million nurses,” https://tinyurl.com/mry67sh6; on 16.7 million leisure and hospitality workers and 24.3 million in education and health services, see “10 facts about workers,” https://tinyurl.com/mrjsu6dx.

  15. 15. April Berthene, “Coronavirus Pandemic Adds $219 Billion to US Ecommerce Sales in 2020–2021,” Digital Commerce 360, https://tinyurl.com/bcdujfd9 (accessed June 26, 2022).

  16. 16. Edward L. Glaeser and David M. Cutler, The Survival of the City: Human Flourishing in an Age of Isolation (New York: Penguin Press, 2021), 4.

  17. 17. Juliana Kaplan, “The Year Workers Said ‘No,’” Business Insider, https://tinyurl.com/yyxtwvhu (accessed June 26, 2022).

  18. 18. Starbucks workers rallied at a picket I attended on August 23, 2022, where the SuperSonics sign was seen; Shaun Scott, Twitter, August 23, 2022, https://tinyurl.com/55266kxj.

  19. 19. Gérard Duménil and Dominique Lévy, Managerial Capitalism: Ownership, Management and the Coming New Mode of Production (London: Pluto Press, 2018), 221.

  20. 20. William J. Nass, “Sick’s Stadium: The Other Days of Summer by William J. Nass,” HistoryLink, May 10, 2012, https://www.historylink.org/file/10108.

  21. 21. Tom Warren, “The NBA Is Using Microsoft Teams to Bring Basketball Fans Courtside,” The Verge, July 24, 2020, https://www.theverge.com/2020/7/24/21337326/nba-microsoft-teams-together-mode-basketball-virtual-experience-fans.

  22. 22. Mirin Fader, Giannis: The Improbable Rise of an NBA MVP (New York: Hachette Books, 2021).

  23. 23. Molly Hensley-Clancy, “Parenting in the Bubble: ‘This Is Mom’s Job. You Have to Work with Me,’” New York Times, July 16, 2020, https://tinyurl.com/5n8yhmnz.

  24. 24. Orlando Silva, “Sue Bird vs. LeBron James Comparison: $215K vs. $37.44M Salary, $11K vs. $370K Bonus for 2020 Championship” Fadeaway World, https://tinyurl.com/2mtfza7b (accessed June 26, 2022).

  25. 25. Christopher T. Bayley, Seattle Justice: The Rise and Fall of the Police Payoff System in Seattle (Seattle: Sasquatch Books, 2015), 27.

  26. 26. Alfred Holman, “Seattle Ably Run by Woman Mayor,” New York Times, July 4, 1926.

  27. 27. See Washington State ACLU’s “Timeline about Police Accountability” in Seattle, https://tinyurl.com/5f3chw62 (accessed June 26, 2022).

  28. 28. “Seattle Mayor, 2 Councilmembers Share Unified Approach in Efforts to Pass Hiring Incentives for SPD,” FOX 13 Seattle, May 9, 2022, https://tinyurl.com/56f8mj9t; Andrew Jeong, “Seattle Elects Republican as City Attorney, Rejecting Police Abolitionist Who Celebrated Property Destruction,” Washington Post, November 6, 2021, https://tinyurl.com/4xuxftc9.

  29. 29. Roger Sale, Seattle, Past to Present (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2019), 125.

  30. 30. Daniel Beekman, “What Are the Political Lines in Your Seattle Neighborhood?,” Seattle Times, December 4, 2019, https://tinyurl.com/yzwjsnr6.

  31. 31. Editorial Board, “Vote no on Seattle Initiative 135 for ‘social housing,’” Seattle Times, January 20, 2023, https://tinyurl.com/22pytdp6.

  32. 32. Reported on by Erica C. Barnett, Twitter, October 12, 2022, https://tinyurl.com/ycy8r73n.

  33. 33. Joan Wallach Scott, On the Judgment of History (New York: Columbia University Press, 2020), xi.

  34. 34. Scott, On the Judgment of History, 82.

  35. 35. James Longhurst, Bike Battles: A History of Sharing the American Road (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2015), 59–67.

  36. 36. “An Object in Social Reform,” Appleton’s Popular Science Monthly 50 (January 1897): 306–9.

  37. 37. Randal Gravelle, Hooverville and the Unemployed: Seattle during the Great Depression (self-published, 2015), 80.

  38. 38. Bradley W. Wart, Hitler’s American Friends: The Third Reich’s Supporters in the United States (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2018), 57.

  39. 39. David Kroman, “Cities, Counties Push for New Bike and Pedestrian Money,” Seattle Times, August 29, 2022, https://tinyurl.com/yckcb7xj.

  40. 40. Jabari Simama, “The Promise and Politics of Pickleball,” Governing, December 21, 2022, https://tinyurl.com/2v2me3he.

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