How the Seattle Pilots became the Milwaukee Brewers

The Mariners weren’t Seattle’s first Major League team. The Brewers were. 

Eight years before the Mariners played their first season in 1977, the Seattle Pilots became the first Major league club to call the Emerald City home. That team, after just one season, would move to Milwaukee and become the Brewers.

For such a brief episode in the game’s long and rich history, the story of the…