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After Rainier Brewing Company resumed producing " Rainier Beer " after the end of Prohibition and its advertisements became ubiquitous in the Seattle-Tacoma area, a rumor began circulating that the brewery's owner, Emil Sick, had bribed a Washington state committee with free beer to name the local mountain " Rainier ".

This, however, is an urban legend and can still be heard today among Tacoma residents who preferred the alternate name of " Mount Tacoma ".

Sick did, however, purchase the local baseball team and named them the Seattle Rainiers for this purpose.