Jon Wells, a baseball writer who has covered the Seattle Mariners for more than 15 years, asserts that poor management and shortsighted ownership combined to keep a team with three first-ballot Hall of Fame players, each in the prime of his career, from reaching the World Series. Wells details every misstep by the Mariners during the team’s 35-year history. But wait, there’s hope! Can General Manager Jack Zduriencik bring in enough young talent to make this club a contender again, as he did for the Milwaukee Brewers?

Includes 45 color photos, most of which have not been published elsewhere.

"This is not a warm and fuzzy recounting of the glory days that ends with Ken Griffey Junior grinning below a jubilant dogpile of teammates." --Keegan Hamilton, Seattle Weekly

"If you're a Seattle baseball fan wondering how an affluent franchise, in an era of MLB parity, can be the only American League team never to make a World Series, you'll know after reading Shipwrecked."
    ----Art Thiel, Sportspress Northwest, author of Out of Left Field

It’s fair, it’s fun, and it’s written out of frustration and love. -- Eugene Register-Guard

"Shipwrecked is a great read that, despite everything, holds out hope for the future--that's the beauty and heartbreak of baseball."--Mike Dillon, Seattle City Living

"A sobering, brutally honest look at the moves and misfires of one of baseball's last two teams to never make the World Series." --Geoff Baker, Seattle Times

"A must read for all long-suffering Mariner fans."
    ----Dave Mahler, KJR Sportsradio, Seattle

"Seattle baseball fans will enjoy this sometimes fun, often critical, and always thorough history of the Mariners' ups and all-too-many downs." --Jim Caple, ESPN.com

"Nobody, and I mean nobody, knows the Mariners like Jon Wells knows the Mariners."
    ----Rob Neyer, National Baseball Editor, SB Nation

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: A native of New York state, Jon Wells is a former entertainment lawyer who lives with his wife in West Seattle.