Description: An authentic Seattle Pilots satin windbreaker from 1969. Our new line of MLB vintage windbreakers are inspired by models from the 1950s and '60s, and use our classic cotton-backed satin.
Product Details:
- Vintage royal blue 53% acetate/47% cotton satin
- Heavy duty snap closure.
- Slash pockets in front
- Unlined
- Gold felt “PILOTS” lettering across the chest
- Embroidered Pilots logo patch on the left sleeve
- Imported
- Item #: PIL69W
League: MLB
History: American League expansion was hastily moved up to 1969 because of pressure to place a new team in Kansas City after the departure of the A's for Oakland. A second team was needed, and Seattle was chosen, even though Sick's Stadium was inadequate and the ownership group under-funded. Let's talk uniforms, though: The Pilots were on the cutting edge, with a snazzy pilot wheel logo and military "scrambled eggs" on their hats. The club's one season in Seattle might have remained obscure if it had not been memorialized in Pilot hurler Jim Bouton's groundbreaking book "Ball Four". The team started 1970 Spring Training as the Pilots, but ended it as the Milwaukee Brewers, when a shrew auto dealer named Bud Selig acquired the team out of bankruptcy.
