Philadelphia Baseball History Conference

The Philadelphia Athletics Historical Society (PAHS) and the Chester County Historical Society (CCHS) co-sponsored a Philadelphia Baseball History Conference at the CCHS museum in West Chester, PA on 14-15 April 2000. The agenda included an exciting array of presentations that examined prominent features of the history of baseball in Philadelphia with a special focus on the Philadelphia Athletics and the Philadelphia Phillies. Speakers included players from the 1950 "Whiz Kids" team-with Hall of Famer Robin Roberts-and the manager of the 1954 Athletics, Eddie Joost. In addition, historians presented the results of their published works and ongoing research.
Friday, April 14th
7:30 p.m. Robin Roberts, Andy Seminik & "Bubba" Church: Remembering the Whiz Kids

Saturday, April 15th
10:00 a.m. David Hunt: Collecting and Appraising Athletics & Phillies Memorabilia

11:30 a.m. Lunch

12:30 p.m. Dan O'Brien: Rube Waddell: The A's Colorful Hurler

1:30 p.m. Bill Kashatus: Mike Schmidt's Relationship with Philadelphia Baseball

2:30 p.m. Dane Tilghman: Painting Baseball's Immortals

3:30 p.m. Rich Westcott: Philadelphia's Old Ballparks

4:30 p.m. Eddie Joost: Playing with and Managing the Philadelphia Athletics

Andi Deminick
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Emory Church

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