(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); 1969 1970 Seattle Pilots Team Formation The front man for the franchise ownership, Pacific Northwest Sports, Inc. (PNSI), was Dewey Soriano, a former Rainiers pitcher and general manager and former president of the PCL. In an ominous sign of things to come, Soriano had to ask William R. Daley, who had owned the Indians at …