Local
film-maker Jim Rosin, with the cooperation and assistance of the Philadelphia
Athletics Historical Society, has produced an hour-long documentary titled,
fittingly enough, "The Philadelphia Athletics: 1901-1954." The film, narrated
by Philadelphia broadcasting legend Bill Campbell and featuring comments
by some of your favorite A's players, was shown on WHYY (Channel 12 in
Philadelphia) at 9:00 p.m. on Thursday September 25. It was then repeated
at 6:00 p.m. on Sunday September 28.
“A one hour documentary that offers a compelling historical account of the A’s once the far more popular and more successful baseball team representing Philadelphia. It marvelously conveys an old time era when baseball was played on warm summer afternoons and really was the National Pastime”....The Philadelphia Inquirer.
Producer Jim Rosin has put together the ultimate story of Connie Mack’s Philadelphia Athletics from their very beginning to their demise after the 1954 season. A’s fans in Kansas City and Oakland along with the still present throng of Philadelphia A’s fans to treat themselves to an hour of prime time viewing....Jack Laufer, Media, Pa.
