Seattle Mariners - The Early Days

A tribute to the players who toiled for the Seattle Mariners 1977 to 1984-ish. From the tribute CD - Seattle...A Baseball Town
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The Early Days
Words and Music by Deuce Bender


Diego Sequi threw the very first pitch
Ruppert Jones, the first guy we admired
Craig Reynolds at short, Darrell Johnson held court
With Tom Paciorek, Bruce Bochte and Danny Meyer

Julio Cruz he had wings on his shoes
Bob Stinson, ole Scrap Iron to us
Glenn Abbott, Mike Parrott never threw in the towel
And Lenny Randle once blew the ball foul

(Chorus)
In the Ms early years all the players we cheered
Were castoffs and young guys just wanting to play
Though they dont have the fame, they still wore the name
They were Mariners in the early days

Lee Stanton, Leon Roberts won the Ms triple crown
Maury Wills tried to fire the team up
Enrique Romo, Shane Rawley coming in in the ninth
To save Floyd Bannister, Jim Beattie and Rick Honeycutt

Willie Horton, Jeff Burroughs, Al Cowens passed through
As their playing days came to a close
Richie Zisk, Gorman Thomas, Gaylord Perry stopped by
Rene Lachemann was doing all right
Mario Mendoza once hit .245

Chorus

Bridge:
Phil Bradley, Jim Presley, Spike Owen could play
Bill Caudill was crazy, Mike Morgan was young
Bob Kearney, Scott Bradley behind the plate
Dave Valle emerged, Alvin Davis came on

Jack Perconte, Harold Reynolds, Billy Swift on the mound
Mike Moore and Mark Langston were strong
And everyone thought we see wonderful things
From Danny Tartabull and Ivan Calderon
But Dick Williams couldnt fix what was wrong

Chorus




2003 Deuce Bender Music

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• seattle
• mariners
• kingdome
• M's
• baseball
• Jimm
• McIver
• alvin
• davis
• harold
• reynolds
• gaylord
• perry

[tajniak13]

Nice video!

Name of song?

[baseballbard]

"Early Days" sung by local boy and big-time M's fan Jimm McIver.

[Maxwell1901]

Mario Mendoza once hit .245!

[bfbjr]

I miss the trident, the Kingdome, and John Moses.

[sprdvx]

Oh, the days when there was a valid excuse not to win, unlike today.

[hoghash78]

Oh...Ken Phelps? Seen him live. Toronto vs. Oakland... Holman was 1 out from a perfect game. Ken Phelps came in to pinch hit. First pitch....Home run. Brian Holman didn´t even get a shutout....I believe Ricky Henderson came next and struck out.

What a day, almost seen a perfect game. Now to think of it did Phelps come to Oakland later?

[hoghash78]

I thought Presly had a real chance....I collected all his rookie cards. Well, I´ll still never forget him.

[fbravis]

what? nettles played short? i thought he was with the indians twins yankees and padres?

[SaintWicked721]

my uncle graduated high school with Rick Honeycutt

[BLP1261]

R.I.P. Dave Niehaus.

[DucLeJaques]

Bob Kearney is my father! This is so Awesome! I didn't know something like this was out there! It's awesome to know that people still respect him and appreciate what he's done. People still send him baseball cards for him to sign :) He is happy to sign them and read your letters! Theres been many amazing ones.

[17kearney17]

Bob Kearney is my uncle!

[artwleb]

30 years? What about the Seattle Pilots? Joe Sparma.....

[bradfridell]

That absolute best thing I've ever seen. Love how you cut it off with Valle. I grew up with these guys and they provided some of my best memories. I'd love to go drinking with this guy. WELL DONE!