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If every franchise acted like the Seattle Pilots, no one would have an allegiance to any team.

The Seattle Pilots were an expansion team in 1969 and, like nearly all expansion teams, they struggled. They finished the season 64-98, 33 games behind the Twins. The team played at Sick’s Stadium, which at first only had a capacity of 17,000. It was later expanded, but the Pilots probably didn’t even need to do that. Their average attendance was under 8,500 for the season.

At the end of the year, the team was sold to Bud Selig, who moved the team to Milwaukee the following season. While the move itself wasn’t bad, to only give a franchise one season in a market as big as Seattle is crazy. Baseball would return to Seattle in 1977, when the Mariners began play in the newly built Kingdome.

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