Not long after being fired by the Reds, Bristol was hired by the Seattle Pilots as the second manager in their history.
On October 15, 1968, Timberlake was drafted by the Seattle Pilots from the Yankees as the 48th pick in the 1968 expansion draft.
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After he hung up his uniform, he was the general manager of the AAA Seattle Angels (1965–68), and worked in the front office as director of group ticket sales for the Seattle Pilots during their lone American League season, 1969.
KVI was the original flagship station for the ill-fated Seattle Pilots in 1969 and for the Seattle Mariners, from their inaugural season of 1977 until 1984.
Seattle had been granted an expansion team in the American League, the ill-fated Seattle Pilots, which began play in 1969.
October 21, 1968: Jim Bouton was purchased from the Yankees by the Seattle Pilots.