Welcome to our Online Museum 2003. Here we will take you on a tour of our Museum located in downtown Hatboro, PA. In our Museum we offer an extensive free Library section stocked full with volumes of baseball statistics waiting for your research requirements.

You are now viewing our "Wall of Fame" section of the museum. In this section we have an original circa 1910 Philadelphia Athletics pennant as well as an original portrait of Connie Mack, on loan from his daughter, Ruth Mack Clark.

The perpetual wall plaque is an acknowledgment to supporters to the renovations and maintenance of the wall. The inscription reads: If I could write my own epitaph it would read,”He loved his God, his home, his country, his fellow man, and baseball” Connie Mack summer 1939. Contributors to this plaque will have their names and locations recognized with an individual brass plate permanently attached to the plaque and made a part of this historic tribute.

This is a birds eye's view of showcase wall full of momentos from baseball's past.

This showcase holds Connie Mack's 1929 Philadelphia prestigious B.O.K. Award. The award was named after a wealthy Philadelphia financier, Edward Bok and presented to the Philadelphian each year that was considered to be the most outstanding Philadelphian of the year. The year Mr. Mack was honored with this award, 1929, his Philadelphia Athletics won the World Series Championship. This made Mr. Mack the first recipient from the sports world to be honored with this award. Click here for more information on this award.

This is one of four busts of Connie Mack known to exist, one of which was on display in the rotunda of Connie Mack stadium. Just another reason to put our Museum and Library on your next vacation or holiday stop.

Joe Astroth, Bobby Shantz, Spook Jacobs, all former teammates on Connie Mack's A's share a moment in the Society's Museum with 11 year old Peter Moreni of Hatboro. Peter's dad, Joe, operates the local transmission shop in town.

Bobby Shantz's 1956 Kansas City A's road uniform
is the centerpiece of this tribute to the American League's 1952 MVP. The Shantz uniform is on loan from a Society member. The other Shantz items are either also on loan or a part of the Society's archives.

Jim Wilson's 1949 A's home uniform #28, the game worn hats of Harry Byrd, Sam Chapman & Billy Hitchcock are now a part of the Society's growing archives collection.

Thank you for taking our on-line tour of our Museum & Library, feel free to browse our on-line gift shoppe for a complete line of Athletics wear. The museum was renovated in 2001, click here for the story and more photos from the museum. Or to find out more about becoming a member of the Philadelphia Athletics Historical Society please click here.

Our recently renovated Museum is free to the public.  Stop in, you won't be disappointed.  Click here for directions.

This actual set of three original Shibe Park seats are now on display at the Society's Museum.  Sit down and take a trip back into time, if you close your eyes hard enough, the visions of your youth at Shibe Park just might drift back.

Vintage replica's from the early 20th century.

At the entrance to our showcases you will find an original turnstile from Connie Mack stadium circa 1909, on loan from the personal collection of Carl Goldberg.

Highlighting this showcase is a May 1941 letter from Franklin Delano Roosevelt congratulating Mr. Mack. Also included are other Mr. Mack's personal letters. A complete run of Philadelphia Athletics yearbooks 1949-1954 and on loan from the Foxx family Jimmie's actual everyday coffee mug.

On loan from the Chism's family of Horsham, Pennsylvania, this rare case contains sixteen autographed baseball's 1947 to 1952, eight from each league. The Chism Family collection includes 343 autographs with 23 Hall of Famers. The case has a story of its own made by inmates at Graterford prison.

Featured here are Mitchell & Ness replicas of Richie Ashburn's 1950 Phillies Whiz Kids uniform (#1) and Bobby Shantz's 1950 Athletics (#30) with replica hats on each. The showcase holds replica 1929 and 1910 Athletics uniforms.

How about this display of the Mitchell & Ness replica Philadelphia Athletics uniforms, that include Sam Chapman's 1939 (#10) and 1939 warm-up jacket, Gus Zernial's 1954 home uniform (#19), Buddy Blair's 1942 (#6) home uniform, closed out with a 1914 Athletics home uniform and 1914 World Series ticket stub.

Original Connie Mack Portrait on loan from Ruth Mack Clark, daughter of Connie Mack who resides in Ambler, PA. Come see this and much more on your next visit to our Museum & Library located in downtown, Hatboro, PA.

In this showcase is our tribute to Nellie Fox. Nellie Fox began his Hall of Fame career with Connie Mack's Philadelphia Athletics. Click here for our online tribute to Pennsylvania's Nellie Fox.

Collection of 13 baseballs, 3 blank, 10 with autographs of many stars Philadelphia Athletics, NY Yankees, Indians, White Sox, and others, also A's yearbooks, Yankee sketchbooks circa 1950's. An unbelievable view of baseball from a much better era.

A treasure trove of corporate documents from the early days of the existence of Ben Shibe’s and Connie Mack’s franchise, together with similar ones from the Athletics’ Ottawa farm team, purchased in 1952, are now on display in our museum in Hatboro. These artifacts are on loan to the Philadelphia Athletics Historical Society from SABR, the Society for American Baseball Research. A SABR board member, Norman Macht, in the course of his ongoing work on a biography of Connie Mack, discovered these items in the archives of a Philadelphia law firm. Macht and the board of directors of SABR determined that a very appropriate place to display them would be the A’s Society museum. Click here for more information about these documents.