REUNION TO CELEBRATE 1930 CHAMPS

By Dave Jordan

The annual Philadelphia Athletics Historical Society's breakfast reunion, scheduled this year for October 23, 2005, will pay tribute to the last of Connie Mack's five world champions, the great A's team of 1930. Reunion committee chairman Michael Morsch announced that the theme of this year's reunion will be a salute to the 75th anniversary of the 1930 world champions, a team which featured stars like Al Simmons, George Earnshaw, Jimmy Foxx, Lefty Grove, Mickey Cochrane, Max Bishop, and Bing Miller, among others. While none of Mack's players from that team are now living, the Society hopes to honor the children and descendants of those renowned players. The Athletics won the World Series in 1930, defeating the St. Louis Cardinals in six games. Earnshaw won two, with a 0.72 earned run average, while Grove won the other two, with an e.r.a. of 1.42. Jimmy Dykes, Simmons, Cochrane and Foxx provided the Mackian batting heroics.

The breakfast will begin at 9:00 a.m. at Williamson's Restaurant in Horsham, Pa., on the 23rd of October, climaxing a weekend of nostalgic recollection of past A's glory. Many stars of later A's teams are expected to be on hand as well. Tickets for the breakfast are $40 each for Society members and their guests, $50 each for non-members, and seating will be, as usual, on a first-come, first-served basis. Tickets are currently available through the Society's gift shop in Hatboro, telephone (215)323-9901, e-mail at yorkroad6@aol.com or online.

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Games 3, 4, 5, were played in St. Louis's
Sportsmans Park. The Cardinals won games 3 # 4 defeating Walberg & Grove to tie the series at 2 games each. However, Grove after losing game 4 the day before came back in relief in game 5 to win and give the A's a 3 games to 2 lead heading back to Shibe Park.

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Game #6 was played at Shibe Park on
October 8, 1930. The A's clinched the
Series in a 7 to 1 win over the Cardinals
as George Earnshaw bested Bill Hallahan.

The Richard Monnett family of Boonesboro, MD.
Lefty Grove's grandson, Richard Monnett on the far
right with his family, left to right, his wife Evelyn,
son Mark, daughter Nicky Monnett Draheim, and daughter-in-law Lorie Griffith Monnett, Mark's wife.

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Sammy Hale

Earl Mack

Jimmie Foxx

Charles Perkins

Bill Shores

Eric McNair