One of the most popular guests the Society ever entertained occurred in 1997 when Pete Suder joined up with Eddie Joost & Ferris Fain to celebrate the Society’s First Reunion Breakfast. According to Pete himself it was the first time he had left his home town of Aliquippa, PA since he left baseball in […]
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Residents of The Philadelphia Protestant Home were treated to a program of Halloween songs, jokes, and dance by kindergarten and third grade students from Thomas Creighton School on October 29. The program was in thanks to the many volunteers from PPh who tutor the children weekly at the school, which is located in the […]
By Bob Warrington “Like 95 percent of the baseball players and fans, I find my chief recreation away from the diamond in the gun.” So wrote Charles Albert “Chief” Bender in a 1915 article describing what players do to relax and hone their baseball skills during the off-season.
Representatives of the prestigious Atwater/Kent Museum made a special visit to the A’s Society’s Museum on Thursday October 28th.
The current home of the Jimmie Foxx Museum is located in a section of the Train Station Museum, a small former train station located in his hometown of Sudlersville, Md. The Sudlersville Community Betterment Club is currently designing a fund raiser set for October 16, 2010 to raise the necessary funding to build an expansion […]
SPORTSCASTING: Turning your passion into a profession Book signing Saturday October 30th 10am to noon Hatboro Museum
By Bob Warrington Late in life, Hall of Fame pitcher Denton “Cy” Young was reminiscing about his career and stated, “Of all the games I pitched in the big leagues, that one in Boston stands clearest in my mind.” For a man who won 511 games and lost 316 over 22 years, “that one in […]
“VERNON HALL OF FAME SHOWCASE ”
By Cort Vitty The 2009 season opened with the 50th anniversary of switch hitting Dave Philley’s record of 9 consecutive pinch hits. Coming off the bench, Philley ended 1958 with 8 consecutive safeties for the Philadelphia Phillies. On April 16th 1959, in his first plate appearance of the season, Philley laced a sharp double, to […]
Society member from Scotland visits on Saturday, September 18, 2010. Society employee Mike Fesnak shares a few minutes with our guest from across the Atlantic, Retired Judge Graham Richards of Longsdon, Straffordshire, England who told Mike he found our Museum quite by accident after enjoying his breakfast at a local restaurant he decided to walk […]
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