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Flying high with Seattle's Pilots

By Jim Caple
Page 2

Wednesday, September 2, 2009

The Seattle Pilots, as Jim Bouton says, are baseball's version of Brigadoon, the mythical Scottish village from the old musical that appears for one day every 100 years and then disappears back into the mists. Only instead of pretty lasses and young lads singing about how it's almost like being in love, the expansion Pilots offered one summer of old has-beens and young never-wills pounding Budweiser and showing Seattle fans how it was almost like being in the majors. In the musical, the reside ...

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