From the Kid to the King to the Wizard: Seattle Mariners Books
With Ichiro’s recent retirement, it marks an end to the degrees of separation that bridge us to the glory days of the Mariners. If you were around in the 90s, it is impossible to forget how popular Ken Griffey Jr. was. Everyone wanted to be him, he was almost every kids favorite player, and I imagine countless kids were chewed out on the field for wearing their cap backwards like him. But what is more remarkable? The fact that the Mariners waited to have their best season AFTER he left, with their new superstar, Ichiro. Now with Ichiro retired and Felix Hernandez on his last legs, the Mariners are looking for their next wave of superstars to carry them to the promise land. The gun-slinging, never saw a trade he didn’t like, Jerry Dipoto tore it down for the M’s hoping to find a new superstar somewhere. But for now, the Mariners will have to bask in the glory of their former superstars and the legends they created up in the Pacific Northwest.
Seattle Mariners and Pilots Stories
Baseball’s Greatest Series: Yankees, Mariners, and the 1995 Matchup That Changed History by Chris Donnelly
The 1969 Seattle Pilots: Major League Baseball’s One-Year Team by Kenneth Hogan
Becoming Big League: Seattle, the Pilots, and Stadium Politics by Bill Mullins
The Seattle Pilots Story by Carson Van Lindt
Out of Left Field: How the Mariners Made Baseball Fly in Seattle by Art Thiel
Shipwrecked: A Peoples’ History of the Seattle Mariners by Jon Wells
Mariners 2001: A Joy Ride Into The Record Books by Seattle Post Intelligencer
Biographies
Ken Griffey Jr.
Ken Griffey Jr and Me: A True Story of Extortion, Corruption, and the Destruction of a Life by Tom Brown and Mark Ribowsky
At the Plate with…Ken Griffey Jr. by Matt Christopher
Junior: Griffey on Griffey by Ken Griffey and Mark Vancil
Ken Griffey Jr: A Biography by Bill Gutman
Ken Griffey Jr.: The Home Run Kid (Baseball Superstar) by Larry Stone
Other Biographies
Edgar: An Autobiography by Edgar Martinez and Larry Stone – June 11, 2019
Ichiro on Ichiro by Ichiro
The Samurai Way of Baseball: The Impact of Ichiro and the New Wave from Japan by Robert Whiting
Baseball Is Just Baseball: The Understated Ichiro by David Shields
Other Collections
Tales from the Seattle Mariners Dugout: A Collection of the Greatest Mariners Stories Ever Told by Kirby Arnold – Release May 7, 2019
The Story of the Seattle Mariners by Nate LeBoutillier
100 Things Mariners Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die by Michael Emmerich
Four Decades of Seattle Mariner Baseball by Shawn Paul Eckhart
650 Things You May Not Know About The Seattle Mariners by Mark Peters
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