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6 unusual facts about Kingdome


Calvin Schiraldi

With no outs, runners on first and third, and the Red Sox already down 6-3 to the Seattle Mariners in the Kingdome, Schiraldi replaced Jeff Sellers in the sixth inning.

Concrete shell

The Seattle Kingdome was the world's first (and only) concrete-domed multi-purpose stadium.

Jimmy Gabriel

In 1976 the Sounders moved to the newly built Kingdome where he scored the first goal in the stadium's history.

Richard Tallman

Among Tallman's higher-profile clients in private practice was representing the Seattle Mariners in legal disputes over scheduling rights in the Kingdome.

Seattle City Breakers

The crew's dance career started in February 1984, when they performed in the Waterwear Fashion Show in Seattle's Kingdome.

Washington Huskies baseball

The Huskies played early season tournaments and occasional home games in the Kingdome, which was demolished in March 2000.


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Buck Martinez

Martinez's career took a bad turn when he broke his leg and severely dislocated his ankle in a home plate collision with the Seattle Mariners' Phil Bradley at the Kingdome on July 9, 1985.

Burlescombe

Text incised on slate tablet on monument: "To the memory of Elizabeth Ayshford wife of Arthur Ayshford eldest sonne of Henry Ayshford Esquier only daughter of the right honourable Charles Lord Wilmot Viscount of Atllone (i.e. Athlone, d.1644) late general of his majesties forces in the kingdome of Ireland now a privy counceller both of England Ireland. She dyed the 23th (sic) yeare of her age Anno D(omi)ni 1635 June 13.o"

Elpida Karamandi

Her mother emigrates to Republic of Macedonia (then part of kingdome of Yugoslavia) in Bitola, to her relatives and there marries for the second time.

John Spellman

Spellman supervised the controversial process of siting and building the Kingdome, the domed stadium that provided the first home for the Seattle Seahawks and Seattle Mariners, and initiated early efforts to deal with uncontrolled growth.

National Commission for the Certification of Crane Operators

Its formation was largely in response to high-profile, deadly crane accidents in California (a crane accident killed five in San Francisco's Financial District in November 1989 and another crane accident killed one and caused a fire at Edwards Air Force Base in September 1990) and in Washington state (a July 1994 crane accident at the Kingdome in Seattle killed two and injured one).


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