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2nd ANNUAL LIVE AUCTION OF SPORTS MEMORABILIA

PHILADELPHIA A’s SOCIETY PRESENTS 2nd ANNUAL LIVE AUCTION OF SPORTS MEMORABILIA

Former Bears manager and Athletics Player, Charlie Metro, dies at 91

By Irv Moss, The Denver Post If legends are made by the number of stories told about them, Charlie Metro qualifies hands down.    

COLBY JACK COOMBS

by Dale B. Smith In the early years of our lives June was a special time. In our childhood it meant the beginning of summer vacations. Later, it meant graduation. Our graduation was a chance to shine, if only for a few seconds, to hear our names called and to walk across a stage, diploma […]

ROBERT MAXEY McNAMARA DIES AT AGE 94

  McNAMARA, ROBERT MAXEY 1916 to 2011 Passed away peacefully on March 9, 2011 in Rancho Bernardo, California. He was 94 at the time of his passing.  

FORREST SPOOK JACOBS PASSES AWAY THURSDAY FEBRUARY 17th, 2011

By MIKE FINNEY, The News Journal Baseball legend ‘Spook’ Jacobs dies - he was a second baseman played for Athletics, Pirates.    

IRA THOMAS: CONNIE MACK’S LIEUTENANT

by Dale B. Smith “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times”. Charles Dickens could easily have been referring to the 1914 season of the Philadelphia Athletics. For Connie Mack, 1914 meant both another American League pennant and the destruction of his Athletics family. It was a year of bitter disappointment […]

Steve Van Buren 90th Birthday Party

Front: Steve Van Buren, Chuck Bednarik Back: Pete Retzlaff, Dick Lucas, Ken Farragut, Jim Gallagher, Tommy McDonald Photo provided by Tug McErlain Thanks to Chuck Bednarik’s son-in-law, Ken Safarowic for providing the details & photo of this great event.

1910 – 2010 100th Anniversary Philadelphia Athletics First World Series Championship

     

SOCIETY PRESENTS A REPLICA OF THE ATHLETICS “A” Logo

  We are proud to present a replica of the same design of the Athletics “A” logo that has appeared on Philadelphia Athletics home uniform for their entire 50 + years in Philly. Consisting of a cloth material, sew on type design measuring at the bottom spread 6 3/4″x 5 1/4 “.