PART 3: And Then I Died

April 7th, 1969...The day before the opener. The team is in Seattle finishing up getting settled in after a month in Arizona for Spring Training. Joe Schultz pearl of wisdom for the day, "It's back to the old salt mine, boys". I've personally heard that expression a ton of times in my life, but it's come from someone who had to do extensive manual labor in a dangerous environment. Then again that could apply to being a ballplayer on an expansions team...couldn't it ?