Let’s remember when professional baseball came to Seattle, on this day in 1890 (May 24)
Seattle got professional baseball 129 years ago today, and apparently there were a lot of baseball cranks running around.
On May 24, 1890, teams from Spokane Falls and Seattle play Seattle’s first professional baseball game at a new diamond at the east end of Madison Street. Approximately 1,200 people “consisting of the very best element of the city” and “a large number of ladies” (Post-Intelligencer) watch the “Seattles” best the “Spokanes,” 11–8, beginning at 4:00 p.m.
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer announced, “Today is May 24, the day to which all the baseball cranks in the city have looked forward to for six months.” The team did not have a mascot or a name and was simply called the Seattles or “our boys.” The Seattle team colors were blue and white. Female fans attached streamers to their parasols.
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