Amanda Lane Cumming
@amandalc.bsky.social
I write about baseball. Lookout Landing alum. 2021 SABR Award Finalist. I read a lot of old newspapers. Can solve a Rubik’s Cube. She/Her. Aries ☀️ Aquarius 🌙 Cancer ⬆️ Tacoman
Newsletter on all things PNW baseball history: https://www.nwbaseballhistory.com
Newsletter on all things PNW baseball history: https://www.nwbaseballhistory.com
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Seattle, We Have a Base Ball Team! The Seattle Alkis and the Arrival of Competitive Base Ball in 1877
100 years before the Mariners played their first season, the Alkis gave Seattle fans their first taste of the base ball epidemic.
www.nwbaseballhistory.com
This year is the 150th year of competitive baseball in Seattle! I took a look back at Seattle and the surrounding areas in 1877, and got to know the team that started it all: the Alki Base Ball Club. They captured Seattle's hearts and we haven't been without baseball since.
I asked for snow and it gave me a dusting of graupel. My complicated and unfulfilling relationship with the weather continues.
February 17, 2026 at 4:38 PM
I asked for snow and it gave me a dusting of graupel. My complicated and unfulfilling relationship with the weather continues.
Quit playing games with my heart
February 17, 2026 at 3:58 AM
Quit playing games with my heart
Long weekend reading! It's like reading about now, except the names are different and it happened 80-70 years ago!
February 17, 2026 at 2:17 AM
Long weekend reading! It's like reading about now, except the names are different and it happened 80-70 years ago!
Just sitting, waiting, wishing at the window because it’s basically 32 degrees and the clouds are heavy.
I already know the weather is going to tease me all week and keep me on tenterhooks, but I want snow so bad I’m going to let it, even though I know better. Le sigh.
I already know the weather is going to tease me all week and keep me on tenterhooks, but I want snow so bad I’m going to let it, even though I know better. Le sigh.
February 16, 2026 at 4:22 PM
Just sitting, waiting, wishing at the window because it’s basically 32 degrees and the clouds are heavy.
I already know the weather is going to tease me all week and keep me on tenterhooks, but I want snow so bad I’m going to let it, even though I know better. Le sigh.
I already know the weather is going to tease me all week and keep me on tenterhooks, but I want snow so bad I’m going to let it, even though I know better. Le sigh.
Kids are watching a newfangled version of Carmen Sandiego and the theme song is all wrong! Where’s Rockapella?!
February 16, 2026 at 3:01 PM
Kids are watching a newfangled version of Carmen Sandiego and the theme song is all wrong! Where’s Rockapella?!
Made up a new bedtime song for the kids to the tune of Golden. They love it
(narrator: They hate it)
We're goin' up, up, up, up to beeed
You know our teeth we're brushin'
Going to, going to beeed
Oh, up, up, up to our beeed
Going to, going to beeed
(narrator: They hate it)
We're goin' up, up, up, up to beeed
You know our teeth we're brushin'
Going to, going to beeed
Oh, up, up, up to our beeed
Going to, going to beeed
February 16, 2026 at 4:38 AM
Made up a new bedtime song for the kids to the tune of Golden. They love it
(narrator: They hate it)
We're goin' up, up, up, up to beeed
You know our teeth we're brushin'
Going to, going to beeed
Oh, up, up, up to our beeed
Going to, going to beeed
(narrator: They hate it)
We're goin' up, up, up, up to beeed
You know our teeth we're brushin'
Going to, going to beeed
Oh, up, up, up to our beeed
Going to, going to beeed
Kid, whining: I'm soooo tiiiiiirreeeeeeddd
Me: Do you want to get into bed now?
Kid: Huh? Why?
Honestly, though, relatable 😂
Me: Do you want to get into bed now?
Kid: Huh? Why?
Honestly, though, relatable 😂
February 16, 2026 at 4:21 AM
Kid, whining: I'm soooo tiiiiiirreeeeeeddd
Me: Do you want to get into bed now?
Kid: Huh? Why?
Honestly, though, relatable 😂
Me: Do you want to get into bed now?
Kid: Huh? Why?
Honestly, though, relatable 😂
Got some VERY conflicting responses to this 😂 Which is exactly why I need to read it. I want a strong opinion on it!
I’ve never read Wuthering Heights, but all this discourse about it is making me think I should.
February 16, 2026 at 3:50 AM
Got some VERY conflicting responses to this 😂 Which is exactly why I need to read it. I want a strong opinion on it!
Reposted by Amanda Lane Cumming
Snow is, for the first time this winter, legitimately in the #Seattle forecast. But sorry to say for snow fans, it's not the most exciting snow forecast we could bring you.
Get the latest in the ECW Blog:
emeraldcityweather.com/seattle-puge... #wawx #wasnow
Get the latest in the ECW Blog:
emeraldcityweather.com/seattle-puge... #wawx #wasnow
Snow finally enters the Seattle forecast this winter - Emerald City Weather Blog
(TL;DR/Spoiler Alert Folks — I know this is a long post below so if you need the short
emeraldcityweather.com
February 16, 2026 at 3:05 AM
Snow is, for the first time this winter, legitimately in the #Seattle forecast. But sorry to say for snow fans, it's not the most exciting snow forecast we could bring you.
Get the latest in the ECW Blog:
emeraldcityweather.com/seattle-puge... #wawx #wasnow
Get the latest in the ECW Blog:
emeraldcityweather.com/seattle-puge... #wawx #wasnow
I’ve never read Wuthering Heights, but all this discourse about it is making me think I should.
February 16, 2026 at 12:22 AM
I’ve never read Wuthering Heights, but all this discourse about it is making me think I should.
I really need to bleach part of my hair more, but I’ve seen too many videos of people bleaching their hair for too long and having it just break so I’m going to just live with it like this. Bleach is scary. It’s so crazy they just let you do this at home without adult supervision.
February 15, 2026 at 11:03 PM
I really need to bleach part of my hair more, but I’ve seen too many videos of people bleaching their hair for too long and having it just break so I’m going to just live with it like this. Bleach is scary. It’s so crazy they just let you do this at home without adult supervision.
State patrol plane just flying around and around in circles it’s so effing loud and droning I’m going batty.
February 15, 2026 at 6:09 AM
State patrol plane just flying around and around in circles it’s so effing loud and droning I’m going batty.
Reposted by Amanda Lane Cumming
“We’re goin up, up, up, to the surface, you know this huge yacht we’re sinkin’, it’s gonna be gonna be sunken”
K-Pod Yacht Hunters Chart with K-Pop Bop ‘Sunken’: tinyurl.com/43u47w72
February 14, 2026 at 9:51 PM
“We’re goin up, up, up, to the surface, you know this huge yacht we’re sinkin’, it’s gonna be gonna be sunken”
The inventor of powdered sugar:
February 15, 2026 at 12:17 AM
The inventor of powdered sugar:
I’m not normally a cookie decorator because it‘s so much time and detail work that I’m not good at and don’t like, but for some reason I thought, why not spend all day decorating cookies, and I think I did okay!
Strawberry sugar cookies and strawberry icing. They’re pretty okay for cookies!
Strawberry sugar cookies and strawberry icing. They’re pretty okay for cookies!
February 15, 2026 at 12:04 AM
I’m not normally a cookie decorator because it‘s so much time and detail work that I’m not good at and don’t like, but for some reason I thought, why not spend all day decorating cookies, and I think I did okay!
Strawberry sugar cookies and strawberry icing. They’re pretty okay for cookies!
Strawberry sugar cookies and strawberry icing. They’re pretty okay for cookies!
Not sure if there's another holiday today, but in our house, it's Marshmallow Making Day!
February 14, 2026 at 6:44 PM
Not sure if there's another holiday today, but in our house, it's Marshmallow Making Day!
How can you not be romantic about baseball?!!
February 14, 2026 at 4:37 PM
How can you not be romantic about baseball?!!
Love to remember John Marzano! I talked about him a bit on the @toloveamariner.bsky.social podcast (online if you haven’t!). He definitely makes the list of my all-time favorite Mariners. The post below has video of him punching Paul O’Neill, which is a great moment in baseball history.
Born February 14, 1963, today would have been John Marzano's 63rd birthday. Born in South Philly, he starred at Temple University and for 1984 Team USA. He was a dependable backup catcher for a decade.
John passed away in 2008 after a fall in his home. 1988toppspodcast.blogspot.com/2024/02/john...
John passed away in 2008 after a fall in his home. 1988toppspodcast.blogspot.com/2024/02/john...
John Marzano #757
This week, Johnny Marz! Born and raised in South Philadelphia, John Marzano and his dad spent hundreds of hours working on his swing. That w...
1988toppspodcast.blogspot.com
February 14, 2026 at 4:09 PM
Love to remember John Marzano! I talked about him a bit on the @toloveamariner.bsky.social podcast (online if you haven’t!). He definitely makes the list of my all-time favorite Mariners. The post below has video of him punching Paul O’Neill, which is a great moment in baseball history.
I am once again thinking about dying my hair nonhuman color(s). It’s just so much work. Multistep work. But I am bored of my regular hair and it’s a long weekend.
February 14, 2026 at 12:34 AM
I am once again thinking about dying my hair nonhuman color(s). It’s just so much work. Multistep work. But I am bored of my regular hair and it’s a long weekend.
I feel a piece of my soul die every time someone remodels one of the amazing 1920s craftsmans around here into a monument to gray. Gray everything, including replacing original floors with those wide plank fake wood. It’s so awful.
February 13, 2026 at 10:23 PM
I feel a piece of my soul die every time someone remodels one of the amazing 1920s craftsmans around here into a monument to gray. Gray everything, including replacing original floors with those wide plank fake wood. It’s so awful.
8 year old has discovered that campaign signs and posters are perfect to prop up around my desk and make a fort, and I love this for him.
February 13, 2026 at 8:15 PM
8 year old has discovered that campaign signs and posters are perfect to prop up around my desk and make a fort, and I love this for him.
When I’m the dictator of America it will be a crime to rearrange the grocery store.
Me at 20: I’ll have it all figured out by the time I’m 40.
Me at 40: wtf do you mean they rearranged the grocery store
Me at 40: wtf do you mean they rearranged the grocery store
February 13, 2026 at 8:12 PM
When I’m the dictator of America it will be a crime to rearrange the grocery store.
Perfect example of the double standard. If you don’t bone, you’re a prude. If you do, you’re fueling a “radioactive hybrid terror-pig boom.“
ICYMI: Fukushima's radioactive hybrid terror pig boom was driven by amorous mothers
Fukushima's radioactive hybrid terror pig boom was driven by amorous mothers
Genetic study finds domestic pigs’ year-round breeding sped gene flow into wild boar
Back in 2021, in the thick of pandemic mania, The Register gleefully reported that "radioactive hybrid terror pigs" were thriving in Japan's Fukushima exclusion zone.…
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February 13, 2026 at 4:33 PM
Perfect example of the double standard. If you don’t bone, you’re a prude. If you do, you’re fueling a “radioactive hybrid terror-pig boom.“
Great feeling waking up on the first day of a five-day weekend!
February 13, 2026 at 3:29 PM
Great feeling waking up on the first day of a five-day weekend!
I feel bad about throwing away sourdough discard so I’ve been finding ways to use it. We did pizza crust with it and that got rave reviews and now I’m making crackers with it. And the crackers are great, it’s just that I’ve never felt more like a trad wife making sourdough discard crackers 😭
February 13, 2026 at 2:17 AM
I feel bad about throwing away sourdough discard so I’ve been finding ways to use it. We did pizza crust with it and that got rave reviews and now I’m making crackers with it. And the crackers are great, it’s just that I’ve never felt more like a trad wife making sourdough discard crackers 😭