June 24, 1946 A bus Traveling at dusk in a light rain on Washington's Highway 10 en route to Bremerton, careens off a Cascade Mountain pass road, to avoid an oncoming car approximately sixty miles east of Seattle. The crash kill's eight members of the Spokane (Western International League) club and their manager Mel Cole. Jack Lohrke, a young infielder, had gotten off the bus 15 minutes earlier at its last stop in at Snoqualmie Pass, before the accident, on orders to report to San Diego. The future Giant and Phil will be known ever after as "Lucky". Ben Geraghty is also among the survivors.