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History and sports from 100 years ago still alive today
By Laura Marie Rivera | Contributing Writer
While Seattle sports history is powering Hollywood’s holiday lineup, another inspirational Seattle sports tale likewise received a new treatment. Queen Anne author Kevin Ticen has released the second edition of his book, “When It Mattered Most.”
When It Mattered Most tells the triumphant story of the Seattle Metropolitans, America’s first Stanley cup champions, as they claimed hockey’s greatest prize amidst the uncertainty of the United States entering World War I. The new second edition features an updated hardback cover and six additional chapters taking the story through the war’s conclusion, the Spanish Flu pandemic, and culminating with the monumental 1919 Stanley Cup Final.
Daniel James Brown, author of The Boys in the Boat, calls Ticen’s book “a fine addition to the growing body of works that unveil forgotten chapters of Seattle’s sports history.” Brown knows these stories captivate us because the dramas of sports competitions present themselves like life in miniature. “Athletic struggles reveal character in the same way that war and other extreme events do, but with a lot less bloodshed,” Brown said.
While Brown was able to interview a few of his subjects to glean their story, Ticen’s heroes were all long since deceased. Instead, Ticen relied on newspaper accounts and his own athletic experiences to fill in gaps and bring the Mets story back to life. A former captain of the University of Washington baseball team, he played professionally in the Los Angeles Angels organization before returning to coach at UW and the 18U Boys of Summer teams.
While he was successful in carving out a career in sports as a player, coach, manager, and ambassador, he had not yet realized the role writing had played throughout his life. Raised by a writer, he had spent his coaching days writing speeches as well as recruiting and donor material, and his postcoaching days writing event bids and blog posts.
A chance meeting brought everything together.
“Writing has always interested me. It is the thread that has run through every part of my life,” Ticen said.
In 2017, Ticen was working at the Seattle Sports Commission when he was asked to plan a centennial celebration for the Seattle team that had won America’s first Stanley Cup. Unaware
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Photographer Jeff Schenekl visits Seattle every year during the holidays. He was born and raised in Chicago but now lives in Arlington and has been practicing photography since 2016. “Seattle has so many nostalgic locations. It’s always my goal to make the most of my visits to these beautiful places and share my work, hoping to make someone’s day a little brighter,” Schenekl said.
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DARK AND LUMINOUS NIGHT
that Seattle had ever won the Stanley Cup, he was quickly intrigued by the story and pitched multiple authors to write the story.
When he didn’t receive a response, he started researching the story in earnest.
“I was instantly hooked, and I had to figure out a way to write this story,” Ticen said. He started poring through the microfiche film at Seattle Central Library. Quickly, an inspirational story was uncovered, and the rest is history.
Shaun Scott is another local author drawing upon the richness of Seattle history to enhance our lives. His newly released Heartbreak City outlines 170 years of how this community has rallied around their teams.
For his research, When It Mattered Most is one of the first books that he read. Scott said Ticen’s book uncovered an important story, “The Metropolitans were the first example of professional sports in Seattle and the city really united around the team.”
He noted the similarities to today’s enthusiasm surrounding the Kraken and Huskies. As an historian, Scott emphasizes continuity and remarked, “Things that excited the city 100 years ago are not so different from today.”
In addition to written accounts of the team, Ticen was able to explore other artifacts to bring the story to life with the help of a local collector. Dave Eskenazi is a Seattle history and sports buff. He has worked with the Mariners on historical tributes and has loaned the Kraken a pair of ice skates worn by Metropolitans star, Cully Wilson. And over the years, he has curated a scrapbook with original scorecards, tickets, and images of the Mets’ Hall of Fame players.
“I love the Metropolitans. It is such a rich story,” Eskenazi said.
The players came together as a group while the world was facing the uncertainty of World War I and the aftermath of a pandemic.
Adding, “And 100 years later, Seattle finally gets the NHL and then a pandemic. The parallels are eerie.”
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Magnolia Chorale profoundly thanks our audience members, supporters, singers, and instrumentalists for helping to make our December concerts, “Dark and Luminous Night,” a resounding success. After the new year, Magnolia Chorale will start tuning up for a big celebration of its 35th anniversary on May 4-5. We will sing some of our favorite pieces from over the years and we’d love to have you join us as an audience member or as a singer. For more information go to magnoliachorale.org.
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This year, the NHL’s annual outdoor hockey game, the Winter Classic, is coming to Seattle’s T-Mobile Park on New Year’s Day. Wearing Metropolitans inspired jerseys for the contest, the Kraken are additionally hosting the Enterprise NHL Fan Village, a free community event on December 29 and 30 to welcome guests. There will be family-friendly interactive games, special appearances,
and a chance to take a photo with the greatest sports trophy: the Stanley Cup. More information can be found at https://www.nhl.com/ events/2024-nhl-winter-classic.
From the past to the present, sports have played an important role in the history of Seattle. While The Boys in the Boat has finally found its way to the silver screen, one only wonders how long it will take until the Metropolitans story is
similarly glorified. The books can be found at: https://www. clydehillpublishing.com/whenit-mattered-most https://uwapress.uw.edu/ book/9780295751993/ heartbreak-city/ https://www. danieljamesbrown.com/books/ the-boys-in-the-boat/
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Photo by Kevin Ticen
The idea for Kevin Ticen’s book, When It Mattered Most, started when he planned a centennial celebration of America’s first Stanley Cup win. The trophy was given a VIP tour of the city. Here it is shown at Queen Anne’s Kerry Park, during the Space Needle’s renovation in 2017.
FALLING AWAKE: Letter To Rose
Rose, your email came at just the right time. Because here it is December, and I’m at a loss. Everything “holiday” has been written before. I have my doubts as to whether I can find a fresh angle.
When you become a writer, Rose, you’ll understand, I promise.
Before I forget, your saying that you read my column is the best present ever. How many 15- year-old girls even read the paper? Which makes your gift even more precious. Sure, your mom and I know each other. Still, knowing her, knowing you, I infer no female in your home is deciding what the other female reads, period.
life. This might not be an easy thing to hear in your BFF world, but no friend, especially no boyfriend (doubly hard, sorry), will be able to fill that place inside of you that longs for so much.
Only you can fill it. And writing will help.
But, boy, I was thrown into a tizzy after reading your email. You see, in the seventh grade, I called my Home-Economics teacher by my English teacher's name and in front of my classmates, she yelled, "Mary Lou, get your head out of the clouds! Pay attention!”
I was mortified.
What I need to tell you, readers, is that Rose wants to be a writer. But when she told one of her teachers, she did not get the reaction she was hoping for. In Rose’s words, “I’m told I need a backup plan.”
Rose, trying to do the jigsaw of maturing is no easy feat. But, trust me, if you have already found work that makes you happy, a huge piece of you will not go missing. I will go so far as to say your desire to write may turn out to be your truest friend in
How could I have explained to her that I was paying attention. Or that I know how important names are to people, I'm just so bad at remembering them. But ask me anything, anything at all, about what she was wearing, the ever-changing color of her hair, the little lines around her mouth filled with coral-colored lipstick (scary to a teenager), and I knew, baby, I knew. I was obsessed with the details. Noticing was my skill in the world, I just didn’t know how to apply it yet. I didn’t know how to make use of the fact that not only could I remember, sense, specify, describe, perceive, elaborate, but I
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loved doing so. But retrieve someone’s name unless I know them well, honestly, to this day, I go blank. I soak up the visual, but I’m porous to forenames. They leave me. I’m a sieve.
And surnames? Forget it.
Rose, just think how much time I could have saved if my guidance counselor had picked up on my wordy, descriptive babbles and leaned me toward creative writing instead of laying the secretary/nurse option on so thick. Insecure, vulnerable me might have left high school with a feeling of I’m going to be a writer!
See, the thing about my guidance counselor, the thing about my guidance counselor and me, is when I look back at the two of us sitting face to face in her office with fifteen minutes for concerned-looking her to make a stab at my future, what you have to understand is that I knew that the person before me, a full-fledged member of the adult working world, was going to be of no help whatsoever.
Here’s what she said to me, “You can make more money as a secretary. But nursing offers better benefits to your family.” Benefits? Family? Death to a seventeen year old.
Funny, she said nothing about teaching, which is what she did before becoming a counselor. And she certainly said nothing that helped me perceive my individualities as the very traits a writer needs. Gradually, through the years, I learned this on my own.
High school, for me, bristles with so many of these memories. But not to worry. In time, all the lost little parts of me came together, together enough anyway (there are still gaps), to make me see how I really had no choice about what I was meant to do in this world
Lbecause I was already doing it.
Just as you are.And it's great, isn't it?
It’s not hard to see how the rest of my life fell into place around me in all the determined, shared-by-writers, obsessive ways it needed to: notebooks full of ideas, every surface of my home well thought out because I thought if I could just keep my place clean and well organized, I could keep my writing goals in order, too.
By the way, I still believe this.
As the world around me grew more daunting, in other words, as I grew older, I sat for longer and longer intervals, trying to make sense of it all, or some of it, any of it. Which, when I think about it, especially as a college freshman, was way better than drugs and alcohol, or dividing a tomato into a day’s worth of calories.
So, Rose, I advise you to keep following the swerving stretch of road onto your very next page.
Above all, promise me, promise yourself, that you will be totally and completely selfish about making time for your own work. Remember the word “selfish” is rarely applied to selfdisciplined men. And be open. There will be possibilities that will come along that you never envisioned. Don’t pass them up.
And more than anything, Rose, more than anything in the world, insist on passion.
Mary Lou Sanelli is the author of Every Little Thing, a collection of essays nominated for a Washington State Book Award. Her previous titles include fiction and non-fiction. She also works as a speaker and a master dance teacher. For more information about her and her work, visit www.marylousanelli.com.
ike lost socks in the laundry, plant tags tend to wander. Who knows what happens to them? Sometimes, they take a dive and bury themselves at planting, sometimes they fly away on the wind, and sometimes the tag sticks around, but the faded writing needs an archeologist to resurrect. Whether it’s happenstance, a mischievous raven or spirit having a little fun, it leaves the gardener at a loss as to how to proceed. Knowing what you’re growing is a basic building block for your horticultural efforts.
GARDEN MARKERS AND TAGS
Naturally I’d prefer to use less plastic in the garden overall, and there are a lot of tags each year. I’ve seen some lovely but pricey slate markers that I’d consider as a gift or to use in a small herb garden, for instance. There are also soft copper tags that can be etched with a pen that lasts basically forever, but they are not as easy to read. I would likely use these for long-term garden players like trees and large shrubs.
It doesn’t help with the hapless burying or puckish sprites, but to help with the fading of names, I’ve taken to marking wide and short black “chalkboard” plastic tags with a white waterproof “paint” pen. My second choice is pencil on a white plastic tag – pencil lasts better than Sharpie markers, though sometimes I’ll do
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GROWING
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both so I can read it from afar until the Sharpie layer melts away with watering.
This is one of the many times when a garden journal saves me. If I can’t name a plant, I hunt through my garden journals before I plant in its spot or dig it up.
JOURNALS
Journals help you to remember what you planted. Some people simply keep ring binders with plastic pages to hold plant tags like baseball cards – I would probably alphabetize them.
A great thing about this is it subverts the user error I’ve encountered when I plant the plant, come inside having left the tag outside (probably to be soon blown away or buried), and then write down the wrong name. I know a lot of plant names, and often I’ll conflate two similar names or categories. This is why I can’t be sure if I have ‘Arnold Promise’ or ‘Primavera’ witch hazel – both yellow Hamamelis x intermedia cultivars. I’ve considered but never tried making an index card for every new plant to add notes to over the years, like a recipe card holder. Which would work for me if alphabetized until it gets so big I can’t lift it.
You’ll also want to note where the plant was put, because of the tag issues mentioned above – more on maps later.
For bonus points, consider including notes about how it performed amid onslaughts of rain, heat, slugs, and rabbits. You might note the date it was planted, when it emerged and what it looked like (very helpful when weeding in spring), and when it bloomed. How long did it bloom? If you fertilized it, what you used and when, and how it responded. How is it as a cut flower? Keep notes about unusual weather, if spring came late, or frosts came early. This helps you know when your plants bloom in varied conditions in your yard, helping you better plan new additions. Knowing that your allium bulbs bloom the first two weeks of June, at the same time as your groundcover rose is much more helpful than the catalog’s promise of “early spring”.
FROM ANALOG TO DIGITAL
Years ago I journaled the analog way, freeform in a blank notebook. I found the act of creating a handmade testament to my gardening efforts rewarding, just looking at the stack of seasons past with an often-smug sense of satisfaction. However, these journals had no index. So if I wanted to look something up, it was impossible, without rereading every page,
sometimes over multiple seasons, to find it – and sometimes even then. There are premade journals, but I have yet to find the structure that vibes with my needs. I’m not purely a vegetable gardener, so need more than a planner. I don’t write every week, so I feel like a calendar-based one leaves a lot of unused paper. For now, I write an annual Word document each year. It’s not tactile but takes less paper, and the key that puts this method over the top is: that it’s searchable. Can’t remember the name of the Baptisia? Search ‘baptisia” in my Mac finder, and scroll through the yearly documents using [command-f] until I find it. If you have an MS system, I imagine it has a similar function.
Special projects get their documents, like “Seeds to Buy” (wishlist for the year), “Seeds Master List” (what’s planted vs. remaining, so I know not to buy seven packets of Poppy ‘Amazing Gray’ again), Dahlias, Tomatoes, Flowering Bulb Lawn and Fall Bulbs.
I also have a “master plant list” Excel document, but, while searchable it’s unwieldy and hard to read. Having started it about twelve years ago, I have scores of plants (bare-root plants, bulbs, and dahlias) still listed that disintegrated before I figured out where the most well-drained spots were in our yard. Their names stand because a) hope springs eternal and b) laziness.
MAPS
But then there is the need to locate where you’ve put the plant, now that you know what it’s called, meaning maps. This is simple if you only plant the same three raised beds or window boxes every year, you can just draw some boxes on paper or the computer, or you can use a planning app – these are usually for vegetables, but not always. In my garden, I have multiple freeform beds as well as raised beds and containers that change regularly.
Even in my computer journal, it seems inefficient to write descriptions of the location, like “planted between Geranium ‘Rozanne’ and Hellebore ‘Ice n’ Roses Rose’, in the center of the NW-facing bed along the fence.” As a visual person, I find it invaluable to see what’s happening – and how much room might be left.
My dream is to have a master plan diagram for each section of my garden, that I can just edit with a few keystrokes. Dahlia [erase] (rotted) Pacific Coast Iris [insert]. I have tried in Word using bubbles (that lasted a couple of hours before I threw my hands up), and have yet to find the right program for a nonlandscape designer, so I have made single-page maps on graph paper. I’ve lost these at least twice, so my organization system needs help!