by Max Silberman February 8, 1956: A sad day for baseball fans. Connie Mack passes away at the age of 93. A man born during the Civil War, born the son of Irish immigrants became the most dominant figure the game of baseball had known.
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by Ronnie Joyner On August 8th, 1952, St. Louis Browns right-hander Duane Pillette toed the rubber, all set to face off against Cleveland Indians fireballer Bob Feller in a rather ordinary game at Sportsman’s Park. As a matter of fact, everything at the ballpark was pretty ordinary that day. The Brownies were 18 games below […]
By Bob Warrington “From the lips of a frightened little girl came a cry of terror yesterday afternoon that lured hundreds of panic-stricken men to death and injury at the Philadelphia Base Ball Grounds.” So begins the front-page story in the Philadelphia Inquirer describing the collapse of part of the top left field bleachers’ balcony […]
by Ronnie Joyner With long, afternoon shadows creeping across the Sportsman’s Park infield, number 30 walked off the mound for the last time as a St. Louis Browns starting pitcher. It’s quite possible that he had a sense of what the future held for his big league career as he flipped his glove onto the […]
By Bob Warrington Introduction 1912 was a bad year for the Philadelphia Athletics. With back-to-back world championships in 1910-11, most baseball observers thought the A’s were odds-on favorites to win their third title in a row.
By Bob Warrington When Shibe Park opened in 1909, it was hailed then, and is justly remembered now, as the first of a series of classic ballparks that dominated and symbolized Major League baseball in the 20th century. Shibe Park reflected the apex of modern technology, as it was then understood, from reinforced concrete […]
“Crash Davis on meeting Mr. Mack” …Being a southern boy I hadn’t traveled too much but when I got to Shibe Park in Philadelphia, Mr. Mack said he was going to give me $300. I said, ‘Mr. Mack, I won’t play for that. I’m making about that much now.’ He said. ‘Well young man, if […]
By Bob Warrington The inaugural Opening Day at Citizens Bank Park (CBP) on April 12, 2004 marked a milestone in Phillies’ history. One must go all the way back to April 30, 1887 to find a similar event in the franchise’s history.
by Max Silberman One of the little games we enjoy at the museum on a slow day is to look at a newly acquired photo of Shibe Park/Connie Mack Stadium and figure out the year. We look for clues such as the scoreboard which was mechanical prior to l955 and electrical more recently.The stadium changed […]
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