1970 31 Marty Pattin
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| Marty Pattin |
An original Pilot, Pattin was the actual pitcher on opening day in 1969 - not Diego Segui. At least I remember reading that somewhere (but I am not going to look it up now).
Pattin nearly made a career in Seattle with the PCL before the Pilots came along. The Seattle PCL team did not become the Pilots. The Pilots were created from scratch. I do not know what happened to the PCL team. (The team Pattin played for was then named the Angels (formerly the Rainiers) and was a farm team of the AL's California Angels.) The creation of the Pilots was another (temporary) milestone in the major leagues' advance throughout the west coast and the PCL's loss of that coast.
Pattin was discussed relatively often in Bouton's book. Pattin played for the Brewers in 1970, where he would set a record for Brewers/Pilots victories with 14. He would later be a mainstay on the pitching staff of the Royals that dominated the AL West through most of the late 1970s.
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