Spokane's baseball club first went by the moniker "Indians" in 1903, following a Spokesman-Review contest. The contest winner actually chose to call them the "Spokane Inlanders," but the newspaper inexplicably changed it to…

Baseball was America's national pastime before Spokane was even a city. As the railroads moved across the west, Midwestern baseball promoter John Sloane Barnes moved to Spokane in 1890 to help establish the Pacific Northwest League, comprised…

This grand building, recently renamed from the Sherwood to the Cutter Building, is one of many Spokane landmarks designed by Kirtland Cutter. Famed architect Kirtland Kelsey Cutter moved to Spokane in 1886 and brought with him European influences…

As Spokane grew in size and importance, it became apparent that the city would need a stadium for local and visiting sports teams as well as traveling music acts. The decision to build came before there were any funds to pay the contractors. As…