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Scenes from Mitch Williams Book Signing

August 7, 2010        

A’s SOCIETY PARTICPATE IN AMERICAN DIABETES ASSOCIATION FUND RAISER

SOCIETY HOSTS COMCAST MANAGERS MEETING

MANAGERS FROM COMCAST ARE SHOWN HERE AS THEY HELD THEIR REGULAR MONTHLY MEETING IN THE FRIENDLY CONFINES OF THE SOCIETY’S MUSEUM RECENTLY. MORE OF THE PURPOSE OF THE MEETINGS WILL BE ADDED AS IT BECOMES AVAILABLE FROM COMCAST. THE SOCIETY HAS OFFERED SPACE FOR MANY OTHER PROFESSIONAL COMPANY’S WHO CHOOSE TO MEET OFF SITE FROM […]

Phillies Mitch Williams coming to Hatboro

AUTOGRAPHED Straight Talk from Wild Thing Mitch Williams With Darrell Berger, forword by John Kruk 194 page hard cover   So the 1993 season ends with Joe Carter’s homer off Mitch. I’m playing first. The first thing I thought to myself was, okay, its over, we had a helluva run. We finished last the year […]

HEROES OF THE DIAMOND “RED, WHITE AND BLUE TOUR”

HOW IT BEGAN: During a visit to the Naval Aviation Museum, President H.W. Bush discussed the positive impact baseball had on morale during WWII. His comments initiated the development of military baseball in the modern era. Over two decades later, we are the only program in history to wear camouflage uniforms with historical references to […]

Ladies of Baseball Update

Saturday July 17, 2010 at the Days Inn on Easton Road, Horsham, Pa. 10am-noon A chat with ‘Salty’ Sands By Mike Morsch Sarah Jane “Salty” Sands and some of the other original players of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League were a little concerned when Madonna was cast for the 1992 movie “A League of […]

A’s Society Secretary John Patton, in the 1970’s takes a summer trip

A’s Society Secretary John Patton, in the 1970’s takes a summer time trip to visit the Hall of Fame, Fenway Park, the Original Cheers Bar, Yankee Stadium, Shea Stadium, Baltimore’s Municipal Stadium, hosted by radio stations Angelo “Cosmos Kramer” Cataldi.  

Phillies Broadcaster Chris Wheeler Huge Hit at A’s Book Signing

     

MAJE McDONNELL PASSES AWAY

By Dave Jordan Phillies fans the country over were saddened to learn of the death on July 8 of Robert A. “Maje” McDonnell, just shy of his ninetieth birthday.    

BOBBI JACOBS wife of former Philadelphia Athletics infielder dies

Bobbie Lawson Jacobs, age 78, of Milford, died Sunday, June 27, 2010, at the Delaware Hospice Center in Milford, with her family by her side.