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PHILADELPHIA A’s SOCIETY PRESENTS 2nd ANNUAL LIVE AUCTION OF SPORTS MEMORABILIA
By Irv Moss, The Denver Post If legends are made by the number of stories told about them, Charlie Metro qualifies hands down.
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 […]
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.
By MIKE FINNEY, The News Journal Baseball legend ‘Spook’ Jacobs dies - he was a second baseman played for Athletics, Pirates.
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 […]
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.
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 “.
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