Seattle boasts storied history

By Tim Clinton

Seattle sports personalities past and present will be featured on the new seattlesportsstories.com website.

The planned emphasis will be on past athletes, answering the questions of "whatever happened to" and "where are they now" and looking back on their sports accomplishments.

Also in the works are offbeat stories on other personalities such as broadcasters, and features on current competitors.

Seattle has a long and storied sports history, dating back to the Stanley Cup winning Seattle Metropolitans hockey team in 1917. The University of Washington Huskies and the Washington State University Cougars have seemingly always been here, and the Pacific Coast League's Seattle Rainiers ruled the roost along with the hydroplanes until the arrival of basketball's Seattle SuperSonics in 1967 and the one year wonder Seattle Pilots of Major League Baseball in 1969.

Soccer showed up first with the Seattle Sounders in 1974 and again in 2009.

The National Football League arrived with the Seattle Seahawks in 1976 and Major League Baseball returned with the Seattle Mariners in 1977. Hockey came back with the Seattle Kraken in 2021, and women's professional sports arrived with the basketball Seattle Storm in 2000 and soccer's Seattle Reign in 2012.

Also springing up were the Seattle Seawolves of Major League Rugby in 2017 and indoor soccer's Tacoma Stars in 1983 and 2003.

Seattle is also home to Seattle University and Seattle Pacific University, and minor league franchises are nearby in the Tacoma Rainiers and Everett Aquasox of baseball and hockey's Seattle Thunderbirds and Everett Silvertips.

We're still waiting for the return of the Sonics.

So please enjoy the ride reading Seattle Sports Stories.

Links are listed for personality feature stories

Personality features on the Seattle Sports Stories website so far are on Seattle Storm women's basketball broadcaster Dick Fain and University of Washington baseball first baseman and 2025 leading hitter Casen Taggart.

Also included is a story on the naming of Anna Temple as the new University of Washington women's golf head coach.

Now added is a feature about Seattle Mariners color commentator and analyst Angie Mentink and her husband Jarrett and sons Jaxen and Chase.

Listed on this page as well are links to team history stories.

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