Cheney Stadium
Friday, May 26, 2017
Get a “jump
“jump--start” on your holiday weekend!
Followed by a Social,“BAR” BQ, Rainiers Baseball Game & Fireworks
CLE: SUMMIT CLUB 2:00—5:00 PM (3 CLE Credits)
THE UNIQUE ASPECTS OF REPRESENTING THE ATHLETE
PRESENTED BY MICHAEL A. STEWART, LAW OFFICE OF MICHAEL STEWART
WHAT’S IN THE FUTURE FOR CHAMBERS BAY? COME HEAR THE FACTS AND DISCOVER
WHAT’S NEXT FOR OUR FAMOUS GOLF COURSE.
PRESENTED BY JOHN W. LADENBURG, SR., SADLER & LADENBURG LAW GROUP, PLLC,
AND FORMER PIERCE COUNTY EXECUTIVE
TPCBA
WHEN DOES ATHLETIC AGGRESSION BECOME CRIMINAL CULPABILITY ON THE PLAYING
FIELD? PRESENTED BY RETIRED JUDGE RONALD CULPEPPER, PIERCE COUNTY SUPERIOR
COURT; HEATHER DEMAINE, PIERCE COUNTY DEPUTY PROSECUTING ATTORNEY; AND JEFF KIM,
PIERCE COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF ASSIGNED COUNSEL, WHO W ILL RUN YOU THROUGH THE PLAYBY-PLAY ON A NUMBER OF SCINTILLATING SCENARIOS!
“BAR” BQ/GAME/FIREWORKS: PARTY DECK #2 (LEFT FIELD)—5:30 PM
5:30 PM GATE (MARKED SUITES /CLUB) OPEN TO GUESTS AND THE PUBLIC
6:00 PM SOCIAL (BEER, WINE AND WATER) ON PARTY DECK #2 (ON THE LEFT FIELD)
6:30 PM “BAR” BQ (CONTINUES UNTIL 8:00 PM)
Following the CLE, guests (family members & friends) can join CLE participants on the party deck (see additional
ticket pricing below). The “Bar” BQ includes hamburgers, hot dogs, potato salad, chips, water, wine & beer.
Register Early: The first 50 registrants will receive an official TPCBA umbrella!
REGISTRATION FORM—Annual Sports Law CLE/ “Bar” BQ & Game—May 26, 2017 (Reservation cut-off May 22)
This is a ticketed event and tickets are limited so please make your reservations EARLY!
3 CLE CREDITS PENDING
Mail registration and payment to:
Pierce County Bar Association
621 Tacoma Avenue South, Suite 403
Tacoma, WA 98402
Phone: 253-272-8871 Fax: 253-627-4718
Email: [email protected]
Bring Your Family & Friends!
Name:
Address:
Phone:
WSBA #:
Email:
Method of Payment: Check Enclosed 
Card #:
Visa  Mastercard 
Security Code:
Exp. Date:
Advance Registration Only. Tickets will be mailed or can be picked up
 $125 TPCBA Member (includes CLE, “Bar” BQ, Game & Fireworks)
 $135 Non-TPCBA Member (includes CLE, “Bar” BBQ, Game & Fireworks)
 $ 50 Additional Tickets (for family/guests at the “Bar” BBQ, Game & Fireworks. ).
Tickets will be mailed prior to the event date along with additional game details. If you do not receive your tickets at least two days before the event, please call 253 272-8871.
Things you maybe didn’t know about our
Tacoma Rainiers
“Take me out to the Ball Game” I want to hear The Star Spangled Banner echoing through the park, the
crack of a bat connecting with a baseball; I want to smell that fresh-cut grass, mustard on hot dogs, those
warmed peanuts just out of their shell, and feel the rush of excitement when a ball sails clean out of the
stadium. Home run!
We have here in the South Sound the Cheney Stadium. The Tacoma Rainiers are right here in our backyard; meaning we can enjoy a night at the ballpark without having to (gasp) drive to Seattle. Of all our
major league-affiliated baseball teams, our Rainiers reside closer to their parent organization (36 miles)
than any other team. That wasn’t, however, always the case:
Other than a one-season stint between 1904 and 1905 the Pacific Coast League didn’t come here to the
South Sound until 1960. Back then the Tacoma team was known as the Tacoma Giants, owned by San
Francisco Giants’ owner Horace Stoneham; he controlled the team until the end of the 1965 season, when
the Chicago Cubs stepped in
Ownership changed hands many times since then and the team played under many monikers: the Tacoma
Twins, the Tacoma Tigers, and the Tacoma Tugs (as in the nautical variety). For a very brief time in the
late 1970s the team was even affiliated with the New York Yankees.
It wasn’t until the 1995 season that “our” team became affiliated with the Seattle Mariners and the Tacoma Rainiers was born. (The origin of the team name is from the Seattle Rainiers baseball team, a minor
league team which existed in the pre-Mariners era under the ownership of the Rainier Brewing Company.)
Since that time many of Seattle’s great players have played here in Tacoma, including Alex Rodriguez,
Jay Buhner, Raul Ibanez, Felix Hernandez, JJ Putz and even recent Hall of Fame inductee Ken Griffey,
Jr. during some rehabilitation assignments.
For the past 12 years Cheney Stadium also has been home to Rhubarb the Reindeer, the Rainiers’ delightfully eccentric baseball-loving mascot. According to the team, no one quite knows the origin of Rhubarb’s
name; they only know that he followed the bright lights of a Cheney fireworks display from his home in
the wilds of Mount Rainier National Park and has never left the stadium. These days Rhubarb can be
found hanging out with his best buddy, Mariner Moose, jamming to his favorite song, “Jump” by Van
Halen and chowing down on Cheney Mountain Dogs.
Our Cheney Stadium has undergone some changes, too; during the 210-day break between the 2010 and
2011 seasons the stadium, with the use of local materials, now boasts a greater seating capacity, more
ADA accessibility, a club and restaurant, a luxury box, and double the number of concession stands.
FUN FACT: Nick Lachey, the 1990’s pop star in boy band “98 Degrees”, was once co-owner of the Tacoma Rainiers.
Join us on May 26th for TPCBA’s annual CLE, Social, “Bar” BQ, Game and
Fireworks at our Extraordinary Cheney Stadium!