The Seattle Pilots were a short-lived MLB team that played for just one season, 1969. The team’s demise was mostly due to financial troubles and poor stadium conditions. The team lost money rapidly due to low attendance in their small and incomplete stadium with only 18K seats. Ownership couldn’t find local buyers to keep the team in Seattle and finance a new stadium. Thus, they were purchased for $10.8M and became the Milwaukee Brewers, but MLB later returned to Seattle with the Seattle Mariners in 1977.
