Baseball's Greatest Series: Yankees, Mariners, and the 1995 Matchup That Changed History

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289 N O T E S Interviews The following people were interviewed exclusively for this book and their cooperation and stories were much appreciated: Jim Abbott, Randy Adamack, Rich Amaral, Marty Appel, Ambassador George Argyros, Chuck Armstrong, Steve Balboni, Jesse Barfield, Craig Beatty, Tim Belcher, Andy Benes, Wade Boggs, Chris Bosio, Phil Bradley, Darren Bragg, Jay Buhner, Brian Butterfield , Mike Cameron, Norm Charlton, Dave Cohen, Joey Cora, Russ Davis, Rick Down, Lee Elia, John Ellis, Jim Evans, Steve Farr, Tony Fernandez, Senator Slade Gorton, Rick Griffin, Lee Guetterman, John Hirschbeck, Tom Hutyler, Dion James, Jim Leyritz, Howard Lincoln, Governor Gary Locke, Governor Mike Lowry, Edgar Martinez, Don Mattingly, Jack McDowell, John McLaren, Dave Niehaus, Paul O’Neill, Lee Pelekoudas, Sam Perlozzo, Ken Phelps, Lou Piniella, Harold Reynolds, Mayor Norm Rice, Rick Rizzs, Scott Sanderson, Herman Sarkowsky, Steve Sax, Glen Sherlock, Buck Showalter, Luis Sojo, Mike Stanley, John Sterling, Doug Strange, David Sussman, Honorable Steve Van Luven, Randy Velarde, Chris Widger, and Dan Wilson. Approximately a dozen people, including Randy Johnson and Ken Griffey Jr., either directly or through a representative, declined or did not respond to requests to be interviewed. 1. Don-nie Base-ball 1. Phone interview with Velarde, 7/23/08; e-mail interview with Abbott, 4/27/07; phone interview with Leyritz, 2/28/07; phone interview with Guetterman, 1/24/08; phone interview with Down, 6/5/08. 2. Phone interview with Mattingly, 4/2/08. 3. Baseballreference.com; Jeff Bradley, “Red-Hot Mattingly Now Captain Video,” New York Daily News, 7/27/95, 74; Bob Raissman, “Mattingly Stirs Media War,” Daily News, 7/21/95, 24. 4. Phone interview with Showalter, 2/24/07. 5. Baseballreference.com. 6. Showalter interview; phone interview with O’Neill, 3/7/07; phone interview with Benes, 1/12/08. 2. Winless in Seattle 1. David Wilma, “From Cranks to Fans: Seattle’s Long Love Affair with Baseball,” HistoryLink, 7/10/01, 1. Kenneth Hogan, The 1969 Seattle Pilots: Major League Baseball’s One-Year Team (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2007), 10. 2. Hogan, The 1969 Seattle Pilots, 11–12, 15. 3. Russ Dille, “Play Ball! A Slide Show History of Early Baseball in Washington ,” HistoryLink, 01/01/03, 8. 4. Hogan, The 1969 Seattle Pilots, 15. 5. John Reeves, “Seattle Angels,” Seattle Mariners Dugout, geocities.com/ colosseum/field (2000). 6. Jim Bouton, Ball Four (New York, NY: Wiley Publishing, 1970), 15. 7. Philip Lowry, Green Cathedrals (Reading, MA: Addison Wesley Publishing, 1993), 217. 8. Hy Zimmerman, “Finley Asks for Kindly Approach to Expansion,” Seattle Times, 1/16/76. 9. Lowery, Green Cathedrals, 217. 10. Wilma, “From Cranks to Fans,” 3. 11. Bouton, Ball Four, 103. 12. Hogan, The 1969 Seattle Pilots, 128. 13. “Expected Shift of Pilots: High Hopes to a Disaster,” Seattle PostIntelligencer , 3/16/70. 14. Hogan, The 1969 Seattle Pilots, 128. 15. “Wanna ‘Play Ball’ with the Pilots?” Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 3/1/70. 16. Lenny Anderson, “Seattle Could Still Lose Pilots, P-I Writer Says,” Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 3/8/70; Larry McCarten, “It’s Off to Milwaukee for Pilots,” Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 4/1/70. 17. In-person interview with Gorton, 11/07/07. 18. Dick Rockne, “A.L. ‘Doctored’ Resolution,” Seattle Times, 1/22/76. 19. Art Thiel, Out of Leftfield: How the Mariners Made Baseball Fly in Seattle (Seattle: Sasquatch Books, 2003), 13. 20. J. Michael Kenyon, “57,000 Cheer Mariners,” Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 4/7/77. 290 • NOTES TO PAGES 5–11 21. Thiel, Out of Leftfield, 14. 22. Baseballreference.com. 23. Dick Rockne, “The Way It Was,” Seattle Times, 3/26/97, F8. 24. Gordon Wittenmyer, “The Gory Years,” Seattle Times, 10/6/95, E3. 25. Thiel, Out of Leftfield, 272 26. In-person interview with Adamack, 11/9/07. 27. Byron Rosen, Washington Post, 7/15/77, D3. 28. “Pitching Improbables,” Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 5/12/06, C2. 29. Wittenmyer, “The Gory Years,” E3. 30. Thiel, Out of Leftfield, 7. 31. Kirby Arnold, Tales from the Seattle Dugout (Champaign, IL: Sports Publishing, 2007), 19. 32. Barry Horstman, “Field of Play: New Owner of the Padres Liked Trip around Bases on Way to Business Success,” Los Angeles Times, 4/12/87, Metro pt. 2, p. 1. 33. United Press International, 1/8/81. 34. Phone interview with Argyros, 3/5/08. 35. “A.L. Owners Approve Two Sales,” New York Times, 1/30/81, A20. 36. Horstman, “Field...